Research Catalog

Title

Scots and Britons : Scottish political thought and the union of 1603 / edited by Roger A. Mason.

Publication

• Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
• ©1994

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mason, Roger A.
• Folger Institute.

Description

xiv, 323 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"This collection of essays by distinguished scholars from Britain and North America constitutes a major contribution to the process of remapping the history of early modern British political thought. Based on a seminar held at the Folger Institute's Center for the History of British Political Thought, it takes the union of the Anglo-Scottish crowns in 1603 as its principal focus and examines the background to and consequences of the creation of a British monarchy from a distinctively Scottish viewpoint. In the process, it provides a pioneering study of Scottish political thought from the Reformation of 1560 to the Covenanting Revolution of the 1640s, shedding new light on the Scots participation in the invention of Britain and on the collapse of multiple kingship in the mid-seventeenth century."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Scottish political thought and the union of 1603.

Subject

• 1600 - 1699
• Political science > Scotland > History > 17th century > Congresses
• Political science
• Koningschap
• Politieke meningen
• Political science > Scotland > History > 17th century
• Science politique > Écosse (GB) > 17e siècle
• Idées politiques > Grande-Bretagne > Écosse (GB) > 17e siècle > Congrès
• Scotland > History > 17th century > Congresses
• Great Britain > History > Early Stuarts, 1603-1649 > Congresses
• Great Britain
• Scotland
• Scotland > History > 17th century
• Great Britain > History > Early Stuarts, 1603-1649
• Écosse (GB) > Relations > Congrès. > Grande-Bretagne > 17e siècle
• Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > congrès. > 1603-1649 (premiers Stuarts)
• Ecosse (Grande-Bretagne) > Histoire > Congrès. > 17e siècle

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Note

• "Published in association with the Folger Institute, Washington, DC."
• "This collection of essays has its origins in a seminar held ... at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, in the autumn of 1990"--Preface.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Imagining Scotland : Scottish political thought and the problem of Britain, 1560-1650 / Roger A. Mason -- The union of 1603 / Jenny Wormald -- Scotland, the union and the idea of a g̀eneral crisis' / Maurice Lee, Jr. -- The vanishing emperor : British kingship and its decline, 1603-1707 / Keith M. Brown -- George Buchanan, James VI and neo-classicism / Rebecca W. Bushnell -- George Buchanan, James VI and the presbyterians / Roger A. Mason -- George Buchanan and the anti-monarchomachs / J.H. Burns -- The Scottish Reformation and the origins of Anglo-British imperialism / Roger A. Mason --Number and national consciousness : the Edinburgh mathematicians and Scottish political culture at the union of the crowns / Arthur H. Williamson -- Law, sovereignty and the union / Brian P. Levack -- The political ideas of a covenanting leader : Archibald Campbell, marquis of Argyll,1607-1661 / Edward J. Cowan -- Lex, rex iusto posita : Samuel Rutherford on the origins of government / John D. Ford -- Two kingdoms and three histories? political thought in British contexts / J.G.A. Pocock.

ISBN

• 0521420342
• 9780521420341
• 0521026202
• 9780521026208

LCCN

93032399

OCLC

• ocm28890900
• 28890900
• SCSB-14521329

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library