Bought and Sold for English Gold: Explaining the Union of 1707 - Couverture souple

Whatley, Christopher A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 186232140X ISBN 13 : 9781862321403

Editeur : Tuckwell Press Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

A new, revised edition of this invaluable guide to the background to and causes of the Union of 1707 which, outside Parliament in Edinburgh, was deeply unpopular in Scotland. Extended and re-written in the light of re-establishment of a Scottish Parliament in 1999, the book takes the reader through the maze of competing arguments about why Scots gave up their Parliament in the first place. Professor Whatley's account is dispassionate but also lucid, highly readable and frank in its assessments. Importantly, the book views the Union not only from the Scottish perspective, but also from that of England. It also considers the context of Europe, where political unions were by no means unusual by the early eighteenth century.

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À propos de l'auteur

Christopher A. Whatley OBE, FRSE is Emeritus Professor of Scottish History at the University of Dundee. Initially an historian of the coal and salt industries, and of Scottish industrialisation, he has since written on Scotland’s everyday life, urban society, popular protest, riot and disorder, the causes and consequences of the Union of 1707, memorialisation, and Scottish writers including Robert Burns and his legacy, and John Galt.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tuckwell Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 186232140X
• ISBN 13: 9781862321403
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 138
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• Personne responsable: non disponible