Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of plates iv
4. Note on style and abbreviations v
5. Acknowledgements vii
6. Preface ix
7. Introduction: contrasting and changing receptions of the Union of 1707 1
8. 1. Issues, debates and aims 30
9. 2. Scotland under the union of the crowns to the Revolution of 1688–9: searching for the roots of union 79
10. 3. Roots of union: ambition and achievement and the aftermath of the Revolution 115
11. 4. The 1690s: a nation in crisis 152
12. 5. ‘The most neglected if not opprest State in Europe’? Confrontations and the search for compromise, 1700–5 199
13. 6. Digging Scotland out: Parliament and the reconstruction of the pathway towards union, 1705–6 241
14. 7. Paving the way: the union commissioners and the hearts and minds of the people 261
15. 8. ‘An affair of the greatest concern and import’: the union Parliament and the Scottish nation 297
16. 9. Union in the balance, union accomplished 350
17. 10. Union now 414
18. Appendices 433
19. Select bibliography 444
20. Index 451