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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... interest in the union, the opportunity has also been taken to examine afresh the debate about its causes. This has been done within the framework of a narrative history, to tell the story of the making of a union between two nations ...
... interest in the union, the opportunity has also been taken to examine afresh the debate about its causes. This has been done within the framework of a narrative history, to tell the story of the making of a union between two nations ...
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... interest everywhere and maintain the Liberties of Europe'.12 Conversely, the French and their emissaries in Scotland engaged with the Jacobites to resist such a step. Nothing in the British constitution, wrote one Scotsman not long ...
... interest everywhere and maintain the Liberties of Europe'.12 Conversely, the French and their emissaries in Scotland engaged with the Jacobites to resist such a step. Nothing in the British constitution, wrote one Scotsman not long ...
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... interest in them waned,other than as the subject of some obscene post-union verse which suggested that they had been turned into a collection of dildoes for Queen Anne, but they remain as a link with and symbol of Scotland's independent ...
... interest in them waned,other than as the subject of some obscene post-union verse which suggested that they had been turned into a collection of dildoes for Queen Anne, but they remain as a link with and symbol of Scotland's independent ...
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... interest.18 It often looks like this, and even though intermarriage of children and other blood relations blurred the lines between them, factional conflicts and jealousies continued to influence the political landscape, and in the eyes ...
... interest.18 It often looks like this, and even though intermarriage of children and other blood relations blurred the lines between them, factional conflicts and jealousies continued to influence the political landscape, and in the eyes ...
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... interest, as they saw it. Country party men, some of them the staunchest of patriots in the first years of the eighteenth century, would in – support union. But their change of heart we will argue owed little to court pressure ...
... interest, as they saw it. Country party men, some of them the staunchest of patriots in the first years of the eighteenth century, would in – support union. But their change of heart we will argue owed little to court pressure ...
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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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