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A Union for Empire - Political Thought and the British Union of 1707 (Hardcover, New)
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A Union for Empire - Political Thought and the British Union of 1707 (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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