The Union of 1707: New Dimensions: Scottish Historical Review Supplementary Issue

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Titel: The Union of 1707 : New Dimensions: Scottish Historical Review Supplementary Issue

Enthält: Frontmatter
CONTENTS
Preface
Contributors
Chapter 1 The Issues Facing Scotland in 1707
Chapter 2 The Union of 1707 and the War of the Spanish Succession
Chapter 3 Intellectual Capital in Pre-1707 Scotland
Chapter 4 Conceptions of Nationhood in the Anglo-Scottish Union Debates of 1707
Chapter 5 Publicity, Parties and Patronage: Parliamentary Management and the Ratification of the Anglo-Scottish Union
Chapter 6 The Kirk, Parliament and the Union, 1706–7
Chapter 7 A Union for Empire? Scotland, the English East India Company and the British Union
Index

Beteiligte: Brown, S J [VerfasserIn]; Bowie, Karin [MitwirkendeR]; Jackson, Clare [MitwirkendeR]; Mackillop, Andrew [MitwirkendeR]; Patrick, Derek J. [MitwirkendeR]; Saville, Richard [MitwirkendeR]; Storrs, Christopher [MitwirkendeR]; Whatley, Christopher A. [MitwirkendeR]; Whatley, Christopher [VerfasserIn]

Erschienen: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (192 p.)

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9780748679898

ISBN: 9780748679898

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Schlagwörter: Scottish Studies ; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General

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Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: This collection brings together a series of papers that in May 2007 were presented at a Royal Society of Edinburgh conference organised to mark the 300th anniversary of the Union of 1707. One of the guiding objectives of the RSE event was to showcase the work of younger historians, and to present new work that would provide fresh insights on this defining moment in Scotland's (and the United Kingdom's) history.The seven chapters range widely, in content and coverage, from a detailed study of how the Church of Scotland viewed union and how concerns about the Kirk influenced the voting behaviour in the Scottish Parliament, through to the often overlooked broader European context in which the British parliamentary union - only one form of new state formation in the early modern period - was forged. The global War of the Spanish Succession, it is cogently argued, influenced both the timing and shape of the British union. Also examined are elite thinking and public opinion on fundamental questions such as Scottish nationhood and the place and powers of monarchs, as well as burning issues of the time such as the Company of Scotland, and trade. Other topics include an investigation of the particular intellectual characteristics of the Scots, a product of the pre-Union educational system, which it is argued enabled professionals and entrepreneurs in Scotland to meet the challenges posed by the 1707 settlement. As one of the contributors argues, union offered the Scots only partial openings within the empire

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