Scotland And The Union 1707 2007

Author : Tom M. Devine
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748635436

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Scotland and the Union 1707-2007 by Tom M. Devine Pdf

Written by the cream of academic talent in modern Scottish history and politics, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the past, present and future prospects of the Anglo-Scottish Union. A scholarly but accessible read, its contributors do not shy away from the controversies surrounding the Union. Their cutting-edge research is presented in a lucid style, serving as an excellent introduction to some key aspects of the Anglo-Scottish relationship between 1707 and 2007.Scotland and the Union 1707-2007 covers all the key themes:* Why the Union took place* A growing acceptance of the Union in the 18th century* The impact of Scots' central role in the British Empire* The politics of unionism* The challenge of nationalism* Thatcherism and the Union* Devolution and prospects for the futureNo other volume considers the entire 300-year experience of union - from its origins in the early 18th century to the historic parliamentary victory of the SNP in May 2007.This is the essential text for unders

Author : Thomas Martin Devine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : England
ISBN : 0748672206

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Scotland and the Union, 1707-2007 by Thomas Martin Devine Pdf

Written by the cream of academic talent in modern Scottish history and politics, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the past, present and future prospects of the Anglo-Scottish Union. A scholarly but accessible read, its contributors do not shy away from the controversies surrounding the Union. Their cutting-edge research is presented in a lucid style, serving as an excellent introduction to some key aspects of the Anglo-Scottish relationship between 1707 and 2007. Scotland and the Union 1707-2007 covers all the key themes: Why the Union took place A growing acceptance of the Union in the 18th century The impact of Scots' central role in the British Empire The politics of unionism The challenge of nationalism Thatcherism and the Union Devolution and prospects for the future No other volume considers the entire 300-year experience of union - from its origins in the early 18th century to the historic parliamentary victory of the SNP in May 2007. This is the essential text for understanding one of the most burning issues in British public life today.

Author : Jørgen Sevaldsen,Jens Rahbek Rasmussen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 8763507021

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The State of the Union by Jørgen Sevaldsen,Jens Rahbek Rasmussen Pdf

This special issue of ANGLES marks the three hundredth anniversary of the Union of the two kingdoms of Scotland and England under the name of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Author : Richard A. A. Devéria
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : National characteristics, British
ISBN : 0954861256

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Scotland and the Union by Richard A. A. Devéria Pdf

Author : Alvin Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199593996

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The Two Unions by Alvin Jackson Pdf

Alvin Jackson examines the two Unions - the Anglo-Scots Union of 1707 and the British-Irish of 1801 - comparing their background, birth, and survival. In sustaining a comparison between the Unions, he illuminates the long history and current state of the United Kingdom.

Author : S J Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Scotland
ISBN : 9780748679898

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Union of 1707 by S J Brown Pdf

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.

Author : Karin Bowie
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0861932897

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Scottish Public Opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union, 1699-1707 by Karin Bowie Pdf

The Anglo-Scottish union crisis is used to demonstrate the growing influence of popular opinion in this period.

Author : Allan I. Macinnes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521850797

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Union and Empire by Allan I. Macinnes Pdf

A major interpretation of the 1707 Act of Union and the making of the United Kingdom.

Author : Christian Auer
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Strasbourg
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9791034404803

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Scotland and the Scots, 1707-2007 by Christian Auer Pdf

The main purpose of this volume is to demonstrate, through a variety of texts covering a vast historical period and from diverse sources (parliamentary reports, letters, memoirs, excerpts of books, newspaper articles, oral testimonies, and related materials) that Scotland cannot be reduced to the traditional images of kilt and bagpipe. The author has often chosen to let common people speak-those people whose voice is seldom heard in traditional history books. Any book written about the history of the Scottish nation that would leave aside such significant events as the Union of Parliaments in 1707, the Jacobite risings of the first half of the 18th century, the Highland clearances, or the process of devolution would most definitely be described as incomplete. But a book about the history of Scotland in which the voices of the elites would be the only ones to be heard would be just as incomplete. The author hopes that his “wandering among words written by others” in temples to knowledge such as the National Archives of Scotland and the National Library of Scotland will ultimately lend new life to those fragments of the past without which it is impossible to understand the present.

Author : Jeffrey Stephen
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780748630783

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Scottish Presbyterians and the Act of Union 1707 by Jeffrey Stephen Pdf

Set against the background of post-revolution Scottish ecclesiastical politics, this book addresses the hitherto largely neglected religious dimension to the debates on Anglo-Scottish Union. Focusing predominantly on the period between April 1706 and January 1707, the book examines the attitudes and reactions of Presbyterians to the treaty and challenges many of the widely held assumptions about the role of the church and other groups during the debate. The focal point of the Kirk's response was the Commission of the General Assembly. Through the extensive use of church records and other primary sources the work of the commission in pursuit of church security through its debates, committees and addresses, is discussed at length. The book also examines the church and groups like the Cameronians and Hebronites in relation to the parliamentary debate, the pursuit of alternatives to incorporation, popular protest, addressing and armed resistance.

Author : Stewart Jay Brown,Christopher A. Whatley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Scotland
ISBN : 074867229X

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The Union of 1707 by Stewart Jay Brown,Christopher A. Whatley Pdf

This collection brings together a series of papers that in May 2007 were presented at a Royal Society of Edinburgh conference organized to mark the 300th anniversary of the Union of 1707.

Author : Oliver Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Scotland
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020306507

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The Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707 by Oliver Brown Pdf

Author : Christopher A. Whatley,Derek J. Patrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015067643323

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The Scots and the Union by Christopher A. Whatley,Derek J. Patrick Pdf

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 inauguration.

Author : Conservative Party (Great Britain). Conservative Research Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Scotland
ISBN : OCLC:248866602

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Scotland and the Union by Conservative Party (Great Britain). Conservative Research Department Pdf

Author : Christopher A Whatley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780748680283

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Scots and the Union by Christopher A Whatley Pdf

Public opinion in Scotland in 1707 was sharply divided, between advocates of Union, opponents, and a large body of "don't knows". In 1706-7 it was party (and dynastic) advantage that was the main reason for opposition to the proposed union at elite level. Whatever the reasons now for maintaining the Union, they are in some important respects different from those which took Scotland into the Union, such as French aggression, securing the Revolution of 1688-89 and the defence of Protestantism. This new edition assesses the impact of the Union on Scottish society, including the bitter struggle with the Jacobites for acceptance of the union in the two decades that followed its inauguration. The book offers a radical new interpretation of the causes of union. Now, as in 1706-7, some kind of harmonious relationship with England has to be settled upon. There exists, on both sides of the border, mutual antipathy but also powerful bonds, of language, kin, and economics. In the case of Scotland there is a strong sense of being "different" from England--a separate nation. But arguably this was even more powerful in the mid-19th century when demand grew not for independence but Home Rule. As in 1707, economic considerations are central, even if the nature of these now are different--the Union was forged in an era of "muscular mercantilism". Perceptions of economic gain and loss affected behaviour in 1706-7 and continue to affect attitudes to the Union today. This new edition lends historical weight to the present-day arguments for and against Union.