Union and Empire :The Making of the United Kingdom in 1707

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Union and Empire

Union and Empire :The Making of the United Kingdom in 1707

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The making of the United Kingdom in 1707 is still a matter of significant political and historical controversy. Allan Macinnes here offers a major interpretation that sets the Act of Union within a broad European and colonial context and provides a comprehensive picture of its transatlantic and transoceanic ramifications that ranged from the balance of power to the balance of trade. He reexamines English motivations from a colonial as well as a military perspective and assesses the imperial significance of the creation of the United Kingdom. He also explores afresh the commitment of some determined Scots to secure Union for political, religious and opportunist reasons and shows that rather than an act of statesmanship, the resultant Treaty of Union was the outcome of politically inept negotiations by the Scots. Union and Empire will be a major contribution to the history of Britain, empire and early modern state formation.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780521850797
ISBN10 0521850797
Number Of Pages 400
Item Weight 700 g
Product Dimensions 152 x 229 x 22 mm
Publisher / Reseller Cambridge University Press
Format hardback
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"Allan I. Macinnes has written a book exploring a very different political world in which the Crown was still a real force, not a fig leaf on prime-ministerial power, and the House of Lords an exclusive gathering of powerful aristocratic figures, many of whom were formidable regional and political powers in their own right." -Bruce P. Lenman, H-Albion

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Author's Bio

Allan Macinnes is Burnett-Fletcher Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen. He has published extensively on Covenants, Clans and Clearances, British State Formation and Jacobitism. His previous publications include Clanship, Commerce and the House of Stuart, 1603–1788 (1996) and, as co-editor with A. H. Williamson, Shaping the Stuart World, 1603–1714: the American Connection (2006).

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