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The Scots and the Union explores the reasons for and the immediate consequences of the British Union of 1707 which created the United Kingdom. Research-based, critically acclaimed and the winner of the Saltire Society’s Scottish History Book of the Year in 2007, The Scots and the Union challenges allegations that the Union was simply a ‘political job’, driven by self-seeking, venal Scottish politicians. Instead it argues that many of the backers of the Union in Scotland – mainly Presbyterian Whigs - were principled in their belief that the measure was necessary if the gains of the ‘Glorious’ R ... More
Keywords: Union, Anglo-Scottish relations, United Kingdom, Scottish politics, Whigs, Presbyterians, Catholicism, Jacobites
Print publication date: 2006 | Print ISBN-13: 9780748616855 |
Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: September 2012 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748616855.001.0001 |
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