The Scots and the Union - Softcover

Whatley, Christopher A.; Patrick, Derek J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748634703 ISBN 13: 9780748634705

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Radical and original, The Scots and the Union explodes the myth of betrayal that has informed 20th-century Scots' understanding of how the United Kingdom was created in 1707. 'Bought and sold for English gold' is exposed as an ill-founded prejudice in this illuminating study of previously overlooked source material. The historiographical understanding of the union for the 21st century starts here ! Tracing the background to the 1707 Treaty of Union, this book explains why union 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. Christopher Whatley offers a radical new interpretation of the causes of union, largely rejecting the idea that the Scots were 'bought and sold for English gold', emphasising instead the international, dynastic and religious contexts in which the union was negotiated.

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Christopher A. Whatley is Professor of Scottish History, Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Dundee. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he is currently co-editor of the four-volume History of Everyday Life in Scotland series (to be published by Edinburgh University Press).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0748634703
• ISBN 13: 9780748634705
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 440
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