A Union for Empire: Political Thought and the British Union of 1707John Robertson Cambridge University Press, 2 de nov. 2006 - 392 pàgines This volume of scholarly essays explores the ideas of union and empire current at the time of the Union between Scotland and England in 1707. It demonstrates for the first time the wider significance of the Union in Europe and throughout the English-speaking w orld. It is a major contribution to the growing interest in 'British' history, but should also be of considerable interest to all students of political and economic unions, a subject of increasing importance and obvious relevance in contemporary Britain, Europe and North America. |
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two concepts of the early modern | 3 |
The English debate over universal monarchy | 31 |
intellectual origins of | 97 |
63 | 106 |
Scottish cultural change 16601710 and the Union of 1707 | 121 |
conditions of union in the German Empire the Netherlands | 171 |
An elusive sovereignty The course of the Union debate | 198 |
Religious realignment between the Restoration and Union | 210 |
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