A Union for Empire

Political Thought and the British Union of 1707

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Hardcover | 19 June 1995

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This volume of essays explores the intellectual context of the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707. Challenging the received view of the Union as a simple political job, it argues instead that the Union was a landmark in the history of political thought. It investigates the ideas of union, universal monarchy and empire current in Europe and Britain before 1707, focuses on the issues of sovereignty at the centre of the Union debate itself and concludes by studying the aftermath of the debate in eighteenth-century discussions of Britain's relations to Ireland and the North American Colonies. Underlining the vitality of Scottish intellectual life before the Enlightenment, the volume also gives unprecedented attention to the English view of the Union, to its European setting and to its consequences for the subsequent understanding of the British Empire.

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"This is an important collection of essays, and one which should be read by every serious student of the Union and its consequences. Its appeal should be wider than that, and deservedly so, as it adds yet another contribution to the study of Scottish history in what is properly its British, European, and Atlantic context." Christopher Whatley, Books in Review "It is a useful collection, worth having if only for Pocock's splendid concluding piece, which is worth a review all by itself." Scotia "...a fine collection..." Brian P. Levack, Albion "A Union for Empire offers a wealth of fine full generalizations on a wide range of subjects related to a major historical event. All of the articles are thoroughly researched and present well-considered these." Warren M. Elofson, Journal of Modern History

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Notes on contributors
Preface
Unions, Universal Monarchy and Empire
Empire and union: two concepts of the early modern European political order
The English debate over universal monarchy
Power, commerce and natural law in Daniel Defoe's political writings 1698-1707
The Scottish vision of empire: intellectual origins of the Darien venture
The Scottish Setting
Scottish cultural change 1660-1710 and the Union of 1707
Religious realignment between the Restoration and Union
The Issues of Sovereignty
Protestant theologies, limited sovereignties: natural law and conditions of union in the German Empire, the Netherlands and Great Britain
An elusive sovereignty. The course of the Union debate in Scotland 1698-1707
From 'Revolution principles' to Union: Daniel Defoe's intervention in the Scottish debate
Scottish Law, Scottish lawyers and the status of the Union
Union and Empire in the Eighteenth-Century British World
Ireland without Union: Molyneux and his legacy
The legacy of British Union for the North American colonies: provincial elites and the problem of Imperial Union
Empire, state and confederation: the War of American Independence as a crisis in multiple monarchy
Index
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