Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

Scottish Privy Council from Revolution to Union, 1689 to 1708

Av Allan D. Kennedy, Alan R. MacDonald, Alastair J. Mann

1177 kr

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Before 1708, the Privy Council was the Scottish government. Its records are the nearest we have to cabinet papers and they cover almost every conceivable aspect of the nation’s history. Historians of early modern Scotland frequently refer to those records but not always comprehensively. This is the first book to examine the council itself. Its primary focus is the period from the 1689 revolution to the Anglo-Scottish union of 1707. This was an extraordinary age in Scottish and British history which is imperfectly understood because the council’s role remains largely obscure.The book provides a thematic overview of a wide selection of the council’s activities in this period, covering high politics, Jacobitism and prisoners of war, religious policy and persecution of religious minorities, interaction between the council and the other institutions of the nation, approaches to the economy and the environment, efforts to maintain social order and to respond to the petitions and concerns of all levels of society.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2027-04-30
Mått: 156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 280
Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781399546065

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Allan Kennedy is Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Dundee. Previous books include Governing Gaeldom: The Scottish Highlands and the Restoration State, 1660-1688 (Brill, 2014), Serious Crime in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland (EUP, 2025) and Early Modern Scotland: Themes in Focus (Routledge, 2026). Alan MacDonald in Senior Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Dundee. Previous books include The Jacobean Kirk, 1567-1625: Sovereignty, Polity and Liturgy (Routledge, 1998) and The Burghs and Parliament in Scotland, c.1550-1651 (Ashgate, 2016). He was co-editor of the three-volume The History of the Scottish Parliament (EUP, 2004-2010). Alastair Mann in Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Stirling. Previous books include The Scottish Book Trade, 1500-1720 (John Donald, 2000) and James VII: Duke and King of Scots, 1633-1701 (John Donald, 2014). He was co-editor of the three-volume The History of the Scottish Parliament (EUP, 2004-2010).

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This wide-ranging volume firmly establishes the Council’s centrality to the government of Scotland from Revolution to Union. Encompassing classic topics alongside stimulating new approaches provides unprecedented insight into the council’s use of coercion, communication and compensation to direct the Scottish people, their environment and resources, in the decades prior to its dissolution.

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