Title The Union of 1707 : new dimensions, Scottish historical review supplementary issue / edited by Stewart J. Brown and Christopher A. Whatley

Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 142 pages) : illustrations Contents 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 Summary 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 Notes Revised conference papers Published in association with the Scottish Historical Review Trust Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. Politics and government SUBJECT Scotland -- History -- Union, 1707 -- Congresses Scotland -- Politics and government -- 18th century -- Congresses Subject Scotland Genre/Form Electronic books Conference papers and proceedings History Form Electronic book Author Brown, Stewart J. (Stewart Jay), 1951- editor. Whatley, Christopher A., editor. Scottish Historical Review Trust. ISBN 9780748672295 074867229X 9780748679898 0748679898

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