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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... means it was possible to identify at what point each member entered Parliament and then to analyse their voting behaviour up to and including the final parliamentary session,when the articles of the treaty were carried. Work was also ...
... means it was possible to identify at what point each member entered Parliament and then to analyse their voting behaviour up to and including the final parliamentary session,when the articles of the treaty were carried. Work was also ...
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... means of preserving the religion,laws and liberties of the nation which had been undermined during the recent period of 'arbitrary government Idolatrie and Superstition'.Although the proposal had subsequently fallen into abeyance, the ...
... means of preserving the religion,laws and liberties of the nation which had been undermined during the recent period of 'arbitrary government Idolatrie and Superstition'.Although the proposal had subsequently fallen into abeyance, the ...
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... incorporation model was one of several in Europe and that Britain's ascendancy was by no means inevitable.78 The social costs of engagement within the British union were.
... incorporation model was one of several in Europe and that Britain's ascendancy was by no means inevitable.78 The social costs of engagement within the British union were.
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... means the court used to obtain this that stuck in his craw. But incorporating union was not wholly an English aspiration, as is sometimes implied in the literature; as has been noted already, it had its advocates in Scotland too ...
... means the court used to obtain this that stuck in his craw. But incorporating union was not wholly an English aspiration, as is sometimes implied in the literature; as has been noted already, it had its advocates in Scotland too ...
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... mean that they were guilty,or that they acted against the Scottish national 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 ...
... mean that they were guilty,or that they acted against the Scottish national 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 ...
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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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