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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... union of 1707 1 1. Issues, debates and aims 23 2. Scotland under the union of the crowns to the Revolution of 1688—9: searching for the roots of union 70 3. Roots of union: ambition and achievement and the aftermath of the Revolution ...
... union of 1707 1 1. Issues, debates and aims 23 2. Scotland under the union of the crowns to the Revolution of 1688—9: searching for the roots of union 70 3. Roots of union: ambition and achievement and the aftermath of the Revolution ...
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... Union of falls in . An initial aim, as reflected in the book's title, The Scots and the Union,was to capture some of the mood of the time. I wanted to uncover something more than was already known about the condition of ...
... Union of falls in . An initial aim, as reflected in the book's title, The Scots and the Union,was to capture some of the mood of the time. I wanted to uncover something more than was already known about the condition of ...
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... union Parliament,literally piles of burgh and church records, manuscript privy council records, private diaries, the papers of the minor politicians whose votes were crucial in securing the union. During this process it has become ...
... union Parliament,literally piles of burgh and church records, manuscript privy council records, private diaries, the papers of the minor politicians whose votes were crucial in securing the union. During this process it has become ...
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... union – have probably never been as popular in England as they were three hundred years ago. This was in the weeks immediately preceding May , the day when the Act of Union between Scotland and England came into force. 'Sawney ...
... union – have probably never been as popular in England as they were three hundred years ago. This was in the weeks immediately preceding May , the day when the Act of Union between Scotland and England came into force. 'Sawney ...
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... union.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 ...
... union.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 ...
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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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