Scots and the UnionEdinburgh University Press, 14 de abr. de 2014 - 480 páginas This book traces the background to the Treaty of Union of 1707, explains why it happened and assesses its impact on Scottish society, including the bitter struggle with the Jacobites for acceptance of the union in the two decades that followed its inaugur |
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... century criminal cases in Scotland; Rhona Feist, a Dundee graduate, did a similar job with the Journals of the House of Commons for the first three post- union decades. Scholars who have helped, by responding to a query, alerting me to ...
... century criminal cases in Scotland; Rhona Feist, a Dundee graduate, did a similar job with the Journals of the House of Commons for the first three post- union decades. Scholars who have helped, by responding to a query, alerting me to ...
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... century Scotia – and with a royal line that could be traced continuously to the mid-ninth century (and with less certainty as far back as the late fifth century or even to Ireland in the third century ), they had good reason for ...
... century Scotia – and with a royal line that could be traced continuously to the mid-ninth century (and with less certainty as far back as the late fifth century or even to Ireland in the third century ), they had good reason for ...
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... centuries. Such was the level of disenchantment with the union in that it came within four votes of being ... century that the union was being disregarded by the Westminster Parliament, with lord Deskford commenting to the ...
... centuries. Such was the level of disenchantment with the union in that it came within four votes of being ... century that the union was being disregarded by the Westminster Parliament, with lord Deskford commenting to the ...
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... century peak. Colliery and saltwork proprietors, who included the owners of substantial coal- bearing estates on the banks of the firth of Forth, protested in and against the freer trading thrust of the Scottish ...
... century peak. Colliery and saltwork proprietors, who included the owners of substantial coal- bearing estates on the banks of the firth of Forth, protested in and against the freer trading thrust of the Scottish ...
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... century, would also celebrate Scottish prosperity within the union, although at the same time reflecting Scottish singularity and national identity – elements that are conveyed too in the Highland portraits of Henry Raeburn and the ...
... century, would also celebrate Scottish prosperity within the union, although at the same time reflecting Scottish singularity and national identity – elements that are conveyed too in the Highland portraits of Henry Raeburn and the ...
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ambition and achievement and the aftermath of the Revolution | 104 |
a nation in crisis | 139 |
5 The most neglected if not opprest State in Europe? Confrontations and the search for compromise 17005 | 184 |
Parliament and the reconstruction of the pathway towards union 17056 | 224 |
the union commissioners and the hearts and minds of the people | 243 |
the union Parliament and the Scottish nation | 274 |
9 Union in the balance union accomplished | 322 |
Appendix A Membership of the Council of Trade elected 1705 voting record foragainst the court in the thirty recorded divisions in the union Parlia... | 381 |
Bibliography | 392 |
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