Table of Contents

Part I. Setting the Scenes: 1. Introduction; 2. The historiography; Part II. Varieties of Union, 1603–1707: 3. Precedents, 1603–60; 4. Projects, 1661–1703; 5. The Irish dimension; Part III. The Primacy of Political Economy, 1625–1707: 6. The transatlantic dimension; 7. The Scottish question; 8. Going Dutch?; Part IV. Party Alignments and the Passage of Union: 9. Jacobitism and the war of the British succession, 1701–5; 10. Securing the Votes, 1706–7; Part V. Conclusion: 11. The Treaty of Union.

Promotional Information

A major interpretation of the 1707 Act of Union and the making of the United Kingdom.

About the Author

Allan Macinnes is Burnett-Fletcher Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen. He has published extensively on Covenants, Clans and Clearances, British State Formation and Jacobitism. His previous publications include Clanship, Commerce and the House of Stuart, 1603–1788 (1996) and, as co-editor with A. H. Williamson, Shaping the Stuart World, 1603–1714: the American Connection (2006).

Reviews

"Allan I. Macinnes has written a book exploring a very different political world in which the Crown was still a real force, not a fig leaf on prime-ministerial power, and the House of Lords an exclusive gathering of powerful aristocratic figures, many of whom were formidable regional and political powers in their own right." -Bruce P. Lenman, H-Albion