Union and Empire : The Making of the United Kingdom in 1707 (Hardcover)

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.