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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Karin BowiePublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd Imprint: Royal Historical Society Volume: v. 56 Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.478kg ISBN: 9780861932894ISBN 10: 0861932897 Pages: 202 Publication Date: 17 May 2007 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction Politics and Communications in post-Revolution Scotland Oppositional opinion politics The government and public opinion Public discourse on the Union, 1699-1705 Public discourse on the Union treaty Addresses against the treaty Crowds and collective resistance to the treaty Conclusions: public opinion and the making of the Union of 1707 Bibliography IndexReviewsA promising first book which makes an important and original contribution to the making of the United Kingdom in 1707. (...) In sum, this is a worthwhile and well-written contribution to Scottish as devolved British history. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW (A) first rate dissection of Scottish public opinion during the discussions over Anglo-Scottish union. ANNUAL BULLETIN OF HISTORICAL LITERATURE - EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Takes an innovative approach on a relatively unexplored topic (...) that has often been sidelined or marginalized.With the publication of this book, public opinion and its impact must be incorporated into the historiography, and in that sense we now have a greater understanding of the union issue outside the elites. (...) A very good book. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEWA model of its kind. HISTORY SCOTLANDIn the middle of a radical reappraisal of the road to 1707...Karin Bowie's monograph is among the latest and most original contributions to an improved understanding of that process. (...)(A) dazzling examination of the mass, extra-parliamentary agitations against incorporating union. (...) A highly original and rigorous examination of the new adversarial opinion politics the Scottish opposition invented in 1699-1707. (...) Only very rarely has a work of history spoken so directly to a nation's present dilemmas and discontents as Bowie's does to ours. PERSPECTIVESOffers a fresh analysis of the relationship between public opinion and the making of the union. (...) It is now the standard text on the text of politics and the Union of 1707. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SCOTLAND, Spring 2008Of the many books on the Union of 1707 that were released in the year of its three hundredth anniversary, Karin Bowie's study of Scottish Public Opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union stands out as unique. (...) Makes a brave and highly original contribution to two important debates, and it will be of interest to anyone working on either the early modern public sphere or the 1707 Union itself. JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES, July 2008, vol 47, no3 A model of its kind. HISTORY SCOTLAND A promising first book which makes an important and original contribution to the making of the United Kingdom in 1707. [...] In sum, this is a worthwhile and well-written contribution to Scottish as devolved British history. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW [A] first rate dissection of Scottish public opinion during the discussions over Anglo-Scottish union. ANNUAL BULLETIN OF HISTORICAL LITERATURE - EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Takes an innovative approach on a relatively unexplored topic [...] that has often been sidelined or marginalized.With the publication of this book, public opinion and its impact must be incorporated into the historiography, and in that sense we now have a greater understanding of the union issue outside the elites. [...] A very good book. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEWA model of its kind. HISTORY SCOTLANDIn the middle of a radical reappraisal of the road to 1707...Karin Bowie's monograph is among the latest and most original contributions to an improved understanding of that process. [...][A] dazzling examination of the mass, extra-parliamentary agitations against incorporating union. [...] A highly original and rigorous examination of the new adversarial opinion politics the Scottish opposition invented in 1699-1707. [...] Only very rarely has a work of history spoken so directly to a nation's present dilemmas and discontents as Bowie's does to ours. PERSPECTIVESOffers a fresh analysis of the relationship between public opinion and the making of the union. [...] It is now the standard text on the text of politics and the Union of 1707. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SCOTLAND, Spring 2008Of the many books on the Union of 1707 that were released in the year of its three hundredth anniversary, Karin Bowie's study of Scottish Public Opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union stands out as unique. [...] Makes a brave and highly original contribution to two important debates, and it will be of interest to anyone working on either the early modern public sphere or the 1707 Union itself. JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES, July 2008, vol 47, no3 Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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