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The Union of 1707 - New Dimensions - Scottish Historical Review - Supplementary Issue (Paperback, New)
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The Union of 1707 - New Dimensions - Scottish Historical Review - Supplementary Issue (Paperback, New)
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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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