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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... forces that drove such concentrations of power were: first, religion – the contest between Protestantism and the resurgent Roman Catholic church of the Counter-Reformation, fears about which were heightened by Louis's evocation of the ...
... forces that drove such concentrations of power were: first, religion – the contest between Protestantism and the resurgent Roman Catholic church of the Counter-Reformation, fears about which were heightened by Louis's evocation of the ...
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... forces of the second grand alliance that had been formed in to defeat France, and one of Queen Anne's principal advisers, union of Scotland with England was vital if he was not to be diverted in the achievement of his war aims ...
... forces of the second grand alliance that had been formed in to defeat France, and one of Queen Anne's principal advisers, union of Scotland with England was vital if he was not to be diverted in the achievement of his war aims ...
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... forces of law and order the Scottish state could muster, the privy council issued a proclamation against tumults and rabbles. Within Parliament House this was a matter of concern even to opponents of the proposed union, who feared ...
... forces of law and order the Scottish state could muster, the privy council issued a proclamation against tumults and rabbles. Within Parliament House this was a matter of concern even to opponents of the proposed union, who feared ...
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... forces in play that would be difficult to dislodge and by the end of the seventeenth century the regal union had become unworkable.Nor is it to deny that in the scramble for office, politicians in Scotland were not prepared to push ...
... forces in play that would be difficult to dislodge and by the end of the seventeenth century the regal union had become unworkable.Nor is it to deny that in the scramble for office, politicians in Scotland were not prepared to push ...
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... forces in Scotland, general Ramsay. Ramsay himself succumbed on the same occasion to the same cause ('drinking bad wyne' was the more charitable explanation) but,as one contemporary wryly observed, his death was sadly inglorious, after ...
... forces in Scotland, general Ramsay. Ramsay himself succumbed on the same occasion to the same cause ('drinking bad wyne' was the more charitable explanation) but,as one contemporary wryly observed, his death was sadly inglorious, after ...
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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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