Anglo-Scottish Relations from 1603 to 1900

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T C Smout
OUP/British Academy, 22 de des. 2005 - 281 pàgines
The Union of the Crowns in 1603 is the cornerstone of the modern British state, but relations between England and Scotland did not always run smoothly in the following centuries. This volume examines how the neighbouring British nations regarded each other from 1603 to 1900. Why did this union last when many others in Europe fell apart? How close did it come to unravelling? What were the strengths and tricks that preserved it? As aggregations of individuals, as economies, or as systems of law and politics, how did England and Scotland mesh? Political, economic, legal, intellectual and literary historians examine the first three centuries of Union, including the reception of James in the south, the Civil Wars, the background to Parliamentary Union in 1707, the spoils of Empire, and the Victorian climax. Together with its companion Anglo-Scottish Relations, from 1900 to Devolution and Beyond (0-19-726331-3), the volume provides a vivid account of two nations which have often differed, remained very distinct, yet achieved endurance in European terms

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O Brave New World? The Union of England and Scotland in 1603
13
A Blessed Union? AngloScottish Relations before the Covenant
37
The English the Scots and the Dilemmas of Union 16381654
57
Judicial Torture the Liberties of the Subject and AngloScottish
75
Scotland at the End of the Seventeenth Century
103
The Law of the Sea and the Two Unions
127
South Britons Reception of North Britons 17071820
143
William Holland Lewis Walpole Library Yale University
166
EighteenthCentury Scotland and the Three Unions
171
ScottishEnglish Connections in British Radicalism in the 1790s
189
Scottish Élites and the Indian Empire 17001815
213
the Carlyles in London
231
Index
267
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