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Scottish Public Opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union, 1699-1707
By: Karin Bowie
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ISBN: 9781843836513 Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Year of publishing: 2011 Format: Paperback
No of Pages: 202
In the early modern period, ordinary subjects began to find a role in national politics through the phenomenon of public opinion: by drawing on entrenched ideological differences, oppositional leaders...Read more
In the early modern period, ordinary subjects began to find a role in national politics through the phenomenon of public opinion: by drawing on entrenched ideological differences, oppositional leaders were able to recruit popular support to pressure the government with claimed representations of a national interest. This is particularly well demonstrated in the case of the Anglo-Scottish union crisis of 1699-1707, in which Country party leaders encouraged remarkable levels of participation by non-elite Scots. Though dominant accounts of this crisis portray Scottish opinion as impotent in the face of Court party corruption, this book demonstrates the significance of public opinion in the political process: from the Darien crisis of 1699-1701 to the incorporation debates of 1706-7, the Country party aggressively employed pamphlets, petitions and crowds to influence political outcomes. The government's changing response to these adversarial activities further indicates their rising influence.
By revealing the ways in which public opinion in Scotland shaped the union crisis from beginning to end, this book explores the power and limits of public opinion in the early modern public sphere and revises understanding of the making of the British union. Dr KARIN BOWIE lectures in History at the University of Glasgow.
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Review:By revealing the ways in which public opinion in Scotland shaped the union crisis from beginning to end, this book explores the power and limits of public opinion in the early modern public sphere and revises understanding of the making of the British union. Dr KARIN BOWIE lectures in History at the University of Glasgow.
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(A) first rate dissection of Scottish public opinion during the discussions over Anglo-Scottish union. ANNUAL BULLETIN OF HISTORICAL LITERATURE - EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Takes an innovative approach on...Read more
(A) first rate dissection of Scottish public opinion during the discussions over Anglo-Scottish union. ANNUAL BULLETIN OF HISTORICAL LITERATURE - EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Takes an innovative approach on a relatively unexplored topic (...) that has often been sidelined or marginalized.With the publication of this book, public opinion and its impact must be incorporated into the historiography, and in that sense we now have a greater understanding of the union issue outside the elites. (...) A very good book. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEWA model of its kind. HISTORY SCOTLANDIn the middle of a radical reappraisal of the road to 1707...Karin Bowie's monograph is among the latest and most original contributions to an improved understanding of that process. (...)(A) dazzling examination of the mass, extra-parliamentary agitations against incorporating union. (...) A highly original and rigorous examination of the new adversarial opinion politics the Scottish opposition invented in 1699-1707. (...) Only very rarely has a work of history spoken so directly to a nation's present dilemmas and discontents as Bowie's does to ours. PERSPECTIVESOffers a fresh analysis of the relationship between public opinion and the making of the union. (...) It is now the standard text on the politics ofpublic opinion and the Union of 1707. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SCOTLAND, Spring 2008Of the many books on the Union of 1707 that were released in the year of its three hundredth anniversary, Karin Bowie's study of Scottish Public Opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union stands out as unique. (...) Makes a brave and highly original contribution to two important debates, and it will be of interest to anyone working on either the early modern public sphere or the 1707 Union itself. JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES, July 2008, vol 47, no3
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