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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      09 July 2009
      06 December 2007
      ISBN:
      9780511495892
      9780521850797
      9780521616300
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511495892
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.756kg, 400 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.646kg, 398 Pages
      • Subjects:
      British History after 1450, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    British History after 1450, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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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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    "Allan I. Macinnes has written a book exploring a verydifferent political world in which the Crown was still a real force,not a fig leaf on prime-ministerial power, and the House of Lords anexclusive gathering of powerful aristocratic figures, many of whomwere formidable regional and political powers in their own right." -Bruce P. Lenman, H-Albion

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