Scots and Britons
Subtitle: Scottish political thought and the union of 1603
By: edited by Roger A. Mason.
Contributors: Mason, Roger A.; Folger Institute.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Political science -- Scotland -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses.; Scotland -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses.; Great Britain -- History -- Early Stuarts, 1603-1649 -- Congresses.
Other titles: Scottish political thought and the union of 1603.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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"--Pref.