The Scots and the Union Then and Now 2nd Edition by Christopher A Whatley ISBN 0748680276 978-0748680276
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ISBN 10: 0748680276
ISBN 13: 978-0748680276
Author: Christopher A Whatley
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:
Introduction: contrasting and changing receptions of the Union of 1707
CHAPTER ONE Issues, debates and aims
CHAPTER TWO Scotland under the union of the crowns to the Revolution of 1688–9: searching for the roots of union
CHAPTER THREE Roots of union: ambition and achievement and the aftermath of the Revolution
CHAPTER FOUR The 1690s: a nation in crisis
CHAPTER FIVE ‘The most neglected if not opprest State in Europe’? Confrontations and the search for compromise, 1700–5
CHAPTER SIX Digging Scotland out: Parliament and the reconstruction of the pathway towards union, 1705–6
Plates
CHAPTER SEVEN Paving the way: the union commissioners and the hearts and minds of the people
CHAPTER EIGHT ‘An affair of the greatest concern and import’: the union Parliament and the Scottish nation
CHAPTER NINE Union in the balance, union accomplished
CHAPTER TEN Union Now
APPENDIX A Membership of the Council of Trade, elected 1705 (voting record for/against the court in the thirty recorded divisions in the union Parliament, 1706–7)
APPENDIX B Union commissioners, 1689–1706
APPENDIX C (1) Squadrone or ‘Flying Squadron’ members and (2) voting records: divisions of 1700–2 and 1706–7 (union Parliament)
APPENDIX D Church of Scotland: synodal addresses and admonitions, 1714–16
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