Description
Union, war, conquest, revolution, attempted invasions, and armed rebellions: this was an eventful time even by the standards of Scotland's turbulent history. At the same time, traditional notions of kinship and community came under strain as profound economic changes reshaped social relations and created new opportunities.
Laura A. M. Stewart and Janay Nugent explore the creative volatility of the Anglo-Scottish relationship within a European and transatlantic context. Scotland's integration into the burgeoning British imperial state proved easier for some than others; it also drew Scots into the global slave trade. This is a stimulating account of a contentious period, knowledge of which is crucial for an understanding of British history and the politics of today.
This edition in the New History of Scotland series radically updates Rosalind Mitchison's Lordship to Patronage (1983), covering Scotland's history, 1625-1745.
Author: Laura Stewart, Janay Nugent
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 01/05/2021
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781474410175
ISBN10: 1474410170
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | Great Britain | General
- History | Modern | 17th Century
- History | Modern | 18th Century
About the Author
Dr Laura A.M. Stewart is Professor of early modern British history at the University of York. Her many publications on political culture, state formation, print and scribal circulation, and Anglo-Scottish relations include: Urban Politics and the British Civil Wars: Edinburgh, 1617-53 (Leiden, 2006) and Rethinking the Scottish Revolution: Covenanted Scotland, 1637-51 (Edinburgh, 2016; pbk 2018), which was short-listed for the Longman-History Today prize and awarded the American Historical Association Morris D. Forkosch Prize 2017.
Janay Nugent is Associate Professor of History at the University of Lethbridge in Canada. She is co-editor of Finding the Family in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland (Ashgate, 2008) and Children and Youth in Premodern Scotland (Boydell & Brewer, 2015).