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Union, war, conquest, revolution, attempted invasions, and armed rebellions: this was an eventful time even by the standards of Scotland's turbulent history. At the same time, traditional notions of kinship and community came under strain as profound economic changes reshaped social relations and created new opportunities.
Laura A. M. Stewart and Janay Nugent explore the creative volatility of the Anglo-Scottish relationship within a European and transatlantic context. Scotland's integration into the burgeoning British imperial state proved easier for some than others; it also drew Scots into the global slave trade. This is a stimulating account of a contentious period, knowledge of which is crucial for an understanding of British history and the politics of today.
This edition in the New History of Scotland series radically updates Rosalind Mitchison's Lordship to Patronage (1983), covering Scotland's history, 1625-1745.
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Preface; List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Early Stuart Scotland: Britain, Europe, And Beyond
Part One: Scotland and The Formation Of BritainChapter 1. Covenants and Conquest
Chapter 2. Restoration and Revolution
Chapter 3. The Union Of 1707
Chapter 4. Hanoverian Scotland: Whigs and Tories, Unionists and Jacobites
Part Two: Cultures, Communities, and Institutions In Early Modern ScotlandChapter 5. Politics and Participation
Chapter 6. Religious Cultures
Chapter 7. Community, Household, Gender, and Age
Chapter 8. Art and Architecture
Conclusion: North Britons
Further Reading; Index
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Dr Laura A.M. Stewart is Professor of early modern British history at the University of York. Her many publications on political culture, state formation, print and scribal circulation, and Anglo-Scottish relations include: Urban Politics and the British Civil Wars: Edinburgh, 1617-53 (Leiden, 2006) and Rethinking the Scottish Revolution: Covenanted Scotland, 1637-51 (Edinburgh, 2016; pbk 2018), which was short-listed for the Longman-History Today prize and awarded the American Historical Association Morris D. Forkosch Prize 2017.Janay Nugent is Associate Professor of History at the University of Lethbridge in Canada. She is co-editor of Finding the Family in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland (Ashgate, 2008) and Children and Youth in Premodern Scotland (Boydell & Brewer, 2015).
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A provocative new account of Scotland’s history across a century of revolution and political instability
