The Scots and the Union : then and now
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The Scots and the Union : then and now
Edinburgh University Press, 2014
2nd ed
- pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [444]-450) and index
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Description
This book offers key background reading for anyone interested in Scotland's 2014 referendum on independence. 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. The first edition was radical in reinterpreting the causes of union, rejecting the widely held notion that the Scots were bought and sold for English gold and instead placing emphasis on the international, dynastic and religious contexts of the union negotiations. This new edition brings the historical debate up to a vigorous present, in which we are once again discussing such issues and opinions, lending historical weight to arguments for and against Union. It is updated in the light of new research. It challenges dominant view that the Scots were 'bought and sold for English gold'. It includes a new chapter that expands the debate into the present. It adds historical dimension to the current debate about the Union. It presents key background reading for anyone interested in 2014 referendum.
Table of Contents
- Note on style and abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction: contrasting and changing receptions of the union of 1707
- 1. Issues, debates and aims
- 2. Scotland under the union of the crowns to the Revolution of 1688-9: searching for the roots of union
- 3. Roots of union: ambition and achievement and the aftermath of the Revolution
- 4. The 1690s: a nation in crisis
- 5. 'The most neglected if not opprest State in Europe'? Confrontations? and the search for compromise, 1700-5
- 6. Digging Scotland out: Parliament and the reconstruction of the pathway towards union, 1705-6
- 7. Paving the way: the union commissioners and the hearts and minds of the people
- 8. 'An affair of the greatest concern and import': the union Parliament and the Scottish nation
- 9. Union in the balance, union accomplished
- 10. Union now
- Appendices
- Select Bibliography
- Index.
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