
The Union of 1707
New Dimensions: Scottish Historical Review Supplementary Issue
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 10. December 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-7486-3802-4 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
236 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-3802-4 (9780748638024)
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Persons
Stewart J. Brown is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Edinburgh. Christopher A. Whatley OBE, FRSE, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Dundee. He is the author of the award-winning The Scots and the Union (EUP, 2006 and 2014), and co-edited Edinburgh University Press's History of Everyday Life in Scotland series. Long interested in Dundee's history he has co-edited and written several books on the city.
Christopher A. Whatley OBE, FRSE, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Dundee. He is the author of the award-winning The Scots and the Union (EUP, 2006 and 2014), and co-edited Edinburgh University Press's History of Everyday Life in Scotland series. Long interested in Dundee's history he has co-edited and written several books on the city.
Christopher A. Whatley OBE, FRSE, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Dundee. He is the author of the award-winning The Scots and the Union (EUP, 2006 and 2014), and co-edited Edinburgh University Press's History of Everyday Life in Scotland series. Long interested in Dundee's history he has co-edited and written several books on the city.
Editor
Professor of Ecclesiastical HistoryUniversity of Edinburgh
Professor of Scottish HistoryUniversity of Dundee
Content
1. The Issues Facing Scotland in 1707, Christopher A Whatley; 2. The Union of 1707 and the War of the Spanish Succession, Christopher Storrs; 3. Intellectual capital in Pre-1707 Scotland, Richard Saville; 4. Conceptions of Nationhood in the Anglo-Scottish Union Debates, Clare Jackson; 5. Publicity, Parties and Patronage: Parliamentary Management and the Anglo-Scottish Union, Karin Bowie; 6. The Kirk, Parliament and the Union, 1706-7, Derek J Patrick; 7. A Union for Empire? Scotland, The East India Company and the British Union, Andrew Mackillop.