- 480 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Plates
- Note on style and abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction: contrasting and changing receptions of the UnionĀ of 1707
- 1 Issues, debates and aims
- 2 Scotland under the union of the crowns to the Revolution of 1688ā9:
- 3 Roots of union:
- 4 The 1690s:
- 5 āThe most neglected if not opprest State in Europeā? Confrontations and the search for compromise, 1700ā5
- 6 Digging Scotland out:
- 7 Paving the way:
- 8 āAn aļ¬air of the greatest concernĀ and importā:
- 9 Union in the balance, union accomplished
- 10 Union Now
- Select bibliography
- Index