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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... feared for his brutish physical powers. Scottish women too were thought to be rough, sluttish and shameless, although it was hard for visitors to describe their looks: according to one Englishman in , they may have been 'Angels ...
... feared for his brutish physical powers. Scottish women too were thought to be rough, sluttish and shameless, although it was hard for visitors to describe their looks: according to one Englishman in , they may have been 'Angels ...
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... feared by defenders of the Revolution, and limit the animosities that were festering between England and Scotland as Europe tottered on the brink of the war over Spain, King William had on his deathbed urged those around him to press ...
... feared by defenders of the Revolution, and limit the animosities that were festering between England and Scotland as Europe tottered on the brink of the war over Spain, King William had on his deathbed urged those around him to press ...
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... feared might also be destroyed, and with them the nation's pre-union memory.33 The honours did (and have, to this day),concealed in a sealed chest of oak and iron,until their rediscovery in the crown room at Edinburgh castle by Sir ...
... feared might also be destroyed, and with them the nation's pre-union memory.33 The honours did (and have, to this day),concealed in a sealed chest of oak and iron,until their rediscovery in the crown room at Edinburgh castle by Sir ...
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... feared anarchy and the threat to property this entailed even more than a British Parliament. The measure therefore gave the government its biggest majority of the session of Parliament that approved the union. Troops were quartered ...
... feared anarchy and the threat to property this entailed even more than a British Parliament. The measure therefore gave the government its biggest majority of the session of Parliament that approved the union. Troops were quartered ...
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... feared and detested the union as heartily as they despised the Revolution of – . Some 'foolish Cameronians' continued to resist too, so 'highly disgusted' with the union that it was rumoured they were prepared to countenance an ...
... feared and detested the union as heartily as they despised the Revolution of – . Some 'foolish Cameronians' continued to resist too, so 'highly disgusted' with the union that it was rumoured they were prepared to countenance an ...
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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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