John Robertson (ed.)

A Union for Empire

Herausgeber: John, Robertson; Robertson, John

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume of essays explores for the first time the intellectual context of the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707. Challenging the received view of the Union as a simple political job, it argues instead that the Union was a landmark in the history of political thought. The opening contributions investigate the ideas of union, universal monarchy and empire current in Europe and Britain before 1707. There follow chapters devoted to intellectual and religious developments in Scotland between the Restoration and the Union, before attention is focused on the issues of sovereignty at the centre of the Union debate itself. The volume concludes by studying the aftermath of the debate in eighteenth-century discussions of Britain's relations to Ireland and the North American colonies. Underlining the vitality of Scottish intellectual life before the Enlightenment, the volume also gives unprecedented attention to the English view of the Union, to its European setting and to its consequences for the subsequent understanding of the British Empire. The result is a major contribution to the history of British (including Anglo-Irish and American) political thought, and more generally to the history of ideas of union and empire, which will be of wide interest.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 787g
• ISBN-13: 9780521431132
• ISBN-10: 0521431131
• Artikelnr.: 21011803

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on contributors; Preface; Part I. Unions, Universal Monarchy and
Empire: 1. Empire and union: two concepts of the early modern European
political order John Robertson; 2. The English debate over universal
monarchy Steven Pincus; 3. Power, commerce and natural law in Daniel
Defoe's political writings 1698-1707 Laurence Dickey; 4. The Scottish
vision of empire: intellectual origins of the Darien venture David
Armitage; Part II. The Scottish Setting: 5. Scottish cultural change
1660-1710 and the Union of 1707 Roger L. Emerson; 6. Religious realignment
between the Restoration and Union Colin Kidd; Part III. The Issues of
Sovereignty: 7. Protestant theologies, limited sovereignties: natural law
and conditions of union in the German Empire, the Netherlands and Great
Britain James Moore and Michael Silverthorne; 8. An elusive sovereignty.
The course of the Union debate in Scotland 1698-1707 John Robertson;
9. From 'Revolution principles' to Union: Daniel Defoe's intervention in
the Scottish debate Katherine R. Penovich; 10. Scottish Law, Scottish
lawyers and the status of the Union John W. Cairns; Part IV. Union and
Empire in the Eighteenth-Century British World: 11. Ireland without Union:
Molyneux and his legacy Jacqueline Hill; 12. The legacy of British Union
for the North American colonies: provincial elites and the problem of
Imperial Union Ned Landsman; 13. Empire, state and confederation: the War
of American Independence as a crisis in multiple monarchy J. G. A. Pocock;
Index.