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Scotland in the age of two revolutions /

The seventeenth century was one of the most dramatic periods in Scotland's history, with two political revolutions, intense religious strife culminating in the beginnings of toleration, and the modernisation of the state and its infrastructure. This book focuses on the history that the Scots th...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Adams, Sharon (Éditeur intellectuel), Goodare, Julian (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : The Boydell Press, 2014.
Collection:Studies in early modern cultural, political and social history ; v. 20.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Frontcover; Contents; Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1. Scotland and its Seventeenth-Century Revolutions; 2. The Middle Shires Divided: Tensions at the Heart of Anglo-Scottish Union; 3. The Western Highlands and Isles and Central Government, 1616-1645; 4. The Scottish Bishops in Government, 1625-1638; 5. The Scottish Revolution; 6. In Search of the Scottish Republic; 7. Highland Lawlessness and the Cromwellian Regime; 8. The Worcester Veterans and the Restoration Regime in Scotland; 9. The Political Thought of the Restoration Covenanters.
  • 10. Scottish State Oaths and the Revolution of 1688-169011. The Tribulations of Everyday Government in Williamite Scotland; 12. The Company of Scotland and Scottish Politics, 1696-1701; Chronology of Seventeenth-Century Scotland; Further Reading; Index.