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The British Confederate

Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll, c1607-1661

By: Allan I. MacInnes

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The British Confederate

Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll, c1607-1661

By: Allan I. MacInnes

The interplay of roles of the Marquess of Argyll, as clan chief, Scottish magnate and influential British statesman, make him a worthy counterpoint to Cromwell. This book reviews Argyll's formative influence in shaping British frontier policy during the period 1607–38 and his radical, financially creative and highly partial leadership of the Covenanting Movement in Scotland, 1638–45, when Covenanters rather than Royalists or Parliamentarians directed the political agenda in Britain. It examines his role as reluctant but calculated revolutionary in pursuing confessional confederation throughout the British Isles, and in restoring Scotland's international relations particularly with France. His ambivalent role as a military leader is contrasted with that of his genius as a political operator, 1646–51. Reappraising his trial and execution as a scapegoat for reputedly collaborating with Oliver Cromwell and the regicides who executed Charles I in the 1650s, it rehabilitates Argyll's reputation as a tarnished Covenanting hero rather than an unalloyed Royalist villain. The book is firmly grounded in public and private archival sources in the UK, the USA and Scandinavia, and draws especially on privileged access to archives in Inveraray Castle, Argyllshire. It should appeal to those interested in clanship, civil war and British state formation.

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1788854373

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Clanship, Commerce and the House of Stuart, 1603-1788

By: Allan I. MacInnes

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Clanship, Commerce and the House of Stuart, 1603-1788

By: Allan I. MacInnes

This is an appraisal of clanship both with respect to its vitality and its eventual demise, in which the author views clanship as a socio-economic, as well as a political agency, deriving its strength from personal obligations and mutual service between chiefs and gentry and their clansmen. Its demise is attributed to the throwing over of these personal obligations by the clan elite, not to legislation or central government repression. The book discusses the impact on the clans of the inevitable shift, with the passage of time, from feudalism to capitalism, regardless of the "Forty Five". It draws upon estate papers, family correspondence, financial compacts, social bonds and recorded oral tradition rather than the biased records of central government.

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Birlinn Ltd

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1788854047

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A History of Scotland

By: Allan I. Macinnes

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A History of Scotland

By: Allan I. Macinnes

This illuminating and insightful guide offers a comprehensive overview of Scottish history, from the kingdom's genesis in the ninth century to the independence debates of the present day. Considering both internal dynamics and international horizons, Allan Macinnes asserts Scotland's heritage as significant and compelling in its own right, rather than reducing it to an offshoot of England's past. Rigorous and wide-ranging, this textbook is an essential companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students of History. Its lively and accessible style makes it suitable for anyone with an interest in Scotland's national development.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137540494

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Union and Empire

The Making of the United Kingdom in 1707

By: Allan I. Macinnes

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Union and Empire

The Making of the United Kingdom in 1707

By: Allan I. Macinnes

A major interpretation of the 1707 Act of Union and the making of the United Kingdom.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521850797

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9780521850797

Clanship, Commerce and the House of Stuart, 1603-1788

By: Allan I. MacInnes

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Jacobitism, Enlightenment and Empire, 1680 1820

By: Allan I. Macinnes,Douglas J. Hamilton

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Jacobitism, Enlightenment and Empire, 1680 1820

By: Allan I. Macinnes,Douglas J. Hamilton

The essays in this collection examine religion, politics and commerce in Scotland during a time of crisis and turmoil. Contributors look at the effect of the Union on Scottish trade and commerce, the Scottish role in tobacco and sugar plantations, Robert Burns s early poetry on his planned emigration to Jamaica and Scottish anti-abolitionists.

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1306875315

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The British Confederate

Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll, c1607-1661

By: Allan I. MacInnes

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Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll, c1607-1661

By: Allan I. MacInnes

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Book's by Allan I. Macinnes

The British Confederate

The British Confederate

Clanship, Commerce and the House of Stuart, 1603-1788

Clanship, Commerce and the House of Stuart, 1603-1788

A History of Scotland

A History of Scotland

Union and Empire

Union and Empire

Clanship, Commerce and the House of Stuart, 1603-1788

Clanship, Commerce and the House of Stuart, 1603-1788

Jacobitism, Enlightenment and Empire, 1680 1820

Jacobitism, Enlightenment and Empire, 1680 1820

The British Confederate

The British Confederate

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