Forging the state : European state formation and the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707 / editors, Andrew Mackillop and Micheál Ó Siochrú

Published:: Dundee : Dundee University Press, 2009.
Physical Description:: xii, 210 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Additional Creators:: Mackillop, Andrew, 1969- and Ó Siochrú, Mícheál

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Contents:

Introduction : unions in Europe / Andrew Mackillop & Micheál Ó Siochrú -- Union before union : the failure of 'Britain' in the middle ages / David Ditchburn -- the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707 : the scope for a European perspective / John Robertson -- Union as process : confused sovereignty and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1385-1796 / Robert I. Frost -- Maintaining union : Habsburg rule in early modern Hungary / Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin -- Dynasties and union : the Austracists and the War of the Spanish Succession / Jon Arrieta Alberdi -- Kingdom, crown and parliament : patriot myth and the origins of the Irish union / S.J. Connolly -- Picturing the divisiveness of union / Mary Pryor -- Epilogue : the 1707 union, Europe and the culture of Scotland / Peter Davidson & Daniel MacCannell.

Summary:

Situates the 1707 Anglo-Scottish Union in the context of European state formation, exploring comparable political, economic and cultural efforts at unification on the continent.

Subject(s):

Confederation of states—Europe—History
Scotland—History—Union, 1707

ISBN:

1845860489
9781845860486

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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