Andrew Fletcher and The Treaty of The Union

Andrew Fletcher and The Treaty of The Union
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Publisher : Birlinn
Total Pages : 486
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ISBN-10 : 9780857906335
ISBN-13 : 085790633X
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Andrew Fletcher and The Treaty of The Union by : Paul Henderson Scott

Andrew Fletcher has been known since his own lifetime as "The Patriot" because of his determined resistance to the parliamentary Union of Scotland and England in 1707. More recently he has won a new reputation for the boldness, lucidity and originality of his political thought, in which he advocated parliamentary democracy, Scottish independence and European co-operation. This biography of Fletcher describes the events which led to the Union, and offers a critical analysis of his essays and speeches which takes account of recent scholarship on the subject.

Andrew Fletcher: Political Works

Andrew Fletcher: Political Works
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 0521439949
ISBN-13 : 9780521439947
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Andrew Fletcher: Political Works by : Andrew Fletcher

This book is the first complete modern edition of Andrew Fletcher's (1653-1716) political works.

Andrew Fletcher and the Treaty of the Union

Andrew Fletcher and the Treaty of the Union
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Total Pages : 462
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ISBN-10 : 1495650073
ISBN-13 : 9781495650079
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Andrew Fletcher and the Treaty of the Union by : (Paul Henderson). Scott

Andrew Fletcher has been known since his own lifetime as ""The Patriot"" because of his determined resistance to the parliamentary Union of Scotland and England in 1707. More recently he has won a new reputation for the boldness, lucidity and originality of his political thought, in which he advocated parliamentary democracy, Scottish independence and European co-operation. This biography of Fletcher describes the events which led to the Union, and offers a critical analysis of his essays and speeches which takes account of recent scholarship on the subject.

The Two Unions

The Two Unions
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 484
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ISBN-10 : 9780199593996
ISBN-13 : 019959399X
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis The Two Unions by : Alvin Jackson

Alvin Jackson examines the two Unions - the Anglo-Scots Union of 1707 and the British-Irish of 1801 - comparing their background, birth, and survival. In sustaining a comparison between the Unions, he illuminates the long history and current state of the United Kingdom.

Federal Britain

Federal Britain
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 238
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ISBN-10 : 9781134725441
ISBN-13 : 1134725442
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Federal Britain by : John Kendle

The United Kingdom faces with two major federal constitutional debates. The first is about the nations which comprise the British state and hence the division of power between Westminster and regional parliaments of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The second surrounds the United Kingdom and the European Union. This text explores the British engagement with the federal idea from the early 1600s onwards, and sets contemporary discussions in context. In the past four centuries, the British have often looked to the federal idea as a possible solution to problems of the unity of the United Kingdom and of the British Empire. This period has also seen successful adoption of federalism by many countries, including Britain's former colonial possessions. John Kendle examines the break-up of the first British empire and the development of modern federalism. As well as discussing the Anglo-Irish relationship and the United Kingdom's relationship to Europe, the author focuses on other contemporary issues such as the world order, imperial federation and decolonization.

The British Problem c.1534-1707

The British Problem c.1534-1707
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 344
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ISBN-10 : 9781349247318
ISBN-13 : 1349247316
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis The British Problem c.1534-1707 by : Brendan Bradshaw

This pioneering book seeks to transcend the limitations of separate English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh histories by taking the archipelago made up of the islands of Britain and Ireland as a single unit of study. There has been little attempt hitherto to study the history of the 'Atlantic archipelago' as a coherent entity, even for the period during which there was a single ruler of both Great Britain and Ireland. This book begins with the onset of the intellectual, religious, political, cultural and dynastic developments that were to bring teh Scottish house of Stewart to the thrones of England (incorporating the ancient principality of Wales), Ireland, (a kingdom created in 1541 as a dependency of the English Crown) and to full control of Scotland itself and of its islands. This is then a story of the creation of a British state system if not a British state. but the book is also a study of how the peoples of the archipelago interacted - as a result of internal migration, military conquest, protestant and Tridentine CAtholic evangelism - and how they were changed as a result. Ten distinguished historians representing the seperate peoples of the islands of Britain and Ireland, and teaching histort in Britain, Ireland and the USA, offer provocative and challenging new approaches to how and why we need to develop the history of each component of the archipelago in the context of the whole and to make 'the British Problem' central to that study.

The Political Works of Andrew Fletcher. L.P.

The Political Works of Andrew Fletcher. L.P.
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Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : BL:A0017767445
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Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis The Political Works of Andrew Fletcher. L.P. by : Andrew FLETCHER (of Saltoun.)