This book challenges conventional wisdom and provides new insights into Scottish social and economic history. Christopher A. Whatley argues that the Union of 17

This is the first full scholarly study of state formation and the exercise of state power in Scotland. It sets the Scottish state in a British and European cont

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The Glorious Revolution of 1688–9 transformed the role of parliament in Britain and its empire. Large numbers of statutes resulted, with most concerning econo