Scots and Britons: Scottish Political Thought and the Union of 1603 [Hardcover]

Roger A. Mason (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 26, 1994 | ISBN-10: 0521420342 | ISBN-13: 978-0521420341

This collection of essays by distinguished scholars from Britain and North America makes a major contribution to the remapping of early modern British political thought. Focusing on the union of the Anglo-Scottish crowns in 1603, it examines the background to and consequences of the creation of a British monarchy from a distinctively Scottish viewpoint, and sheds new light on the collapse of multiple kingship in the mid-seventeenth century and the Scots' participation in the invention of Britain.

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"The contribution of 'Scots and Britons' is not limited to scholars of Scottish History but also to those concerned with the intellectual and political climate of the 'British Archipelago' in the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century. Our understanding of the union of 1603 has been greatly enhanced by its appearance." John Young, Albion

Book Description

This collection of essays by distinguished scholars from Britain and North America constitutes a major contribution to the process of remapping the history of early modern British political thought. Based on a seminar held at the Folger Institute's Centre for the History of British Political Thought, it takes the Union of the Anglo-Scottish crowns in 1603 as its principal focus and examines the background to and consequences of the creation of a British monarchy from a distinctively Scottish viewpoint. In the process, it provides a pioneering study of Scottish political thought from the Reformation of 1560 to the Covenanting Revolution of the 1640s, and sheds new light on the collapse of multiple kingship in the mid- seventeenth century and the Scots' participation in the invention of Britain.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 340 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (August 26, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521420342
• ISBN-13: 978-0521420341
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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