Union of 1707 (eBook, PDF)

New Dimensions: Scottish Historical Review Supplementary Issue
Redaktion: Brown, S J; Whatley, Christopher A

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748679898
• Artikelnr.: 72429574

Autorenporträt

Stewart J. Brown is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Edinburgh. Christopher Whatley is Professor of Scottish History at the University of Dundee where until recently he was also a Vice Principal and Head of the College of Arts and Social Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Issues Facing Scotland in 1707
Christopher A Whatley; 2. The Union of 1707 and the War of the Spanish Succession
Christopher Storrs; 3. Intellectual capital in Pre-1707 Scotland
Richard Saville; 4. Conceptions of Nationhood in the Anglo-Scottish Union Debates
Clare Jackson; 5. Publicity
Parties and Patronage: Parliamentary Management and the Anglo-Scottish Union
Karin Bowie; 6. The Kirk
Parliament and the Union
1706-7
Derek J Patrick; 7. A Union for Empire? Scotland
The East India Company and the British Union
Andrew Mackillop.