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

S J Brown; Christopher Whatley

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2008

The Union of 1707

New Dimensions: Scottish Historical Review Supplementary Issue

S J Brown and Christopher Whatley

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748679898

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About this book

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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	v
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Chapter 1 The Issues Facing Scotland in 1707 Christopher A. Whatley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2 The Union of 1707 and the War of the Spanish Succession Christopher Storrs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Chapter 3 Intellectual Capital in Pre-1707 Scotland Richard Saville Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Chapter 4 Conceptions of Nationhood in the Anglo-Scottish Union Debates of 1707 Clare Jackson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Chapter 5 Publicity, Parties and Patronage: Parliamentary Management and the Ratification of the Anglo-Scottish Union Karin Bowie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
Chapter 6 The Kirk, Parliament and the Union, 1706–7 Derek J. Patrick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
Chapter 7 A Union for Empire? Scotland, the English East India Company and the British Union Andrew Mackillop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 192
Keywords: Scottish Studies

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Published: December 10, 2008
ISBN: 9780748679898