George Stuart's Books

The Act of Union in 1707 brought with it a new 'Great Britain'. How did the English bind the Scottish elites to the new British State, ensuring the stability of this new power in the face of possible Jacobite and international threat? From 1725 a patronage system existed in Britain enabling government ministries to use posts in the East India Company and its shipping to secure political majorities in Scotland and Westminster. Scots went to India as Company servants, ships' crews, soldiers and free-merchants, bringing back exceptional wealth to a land starved of money and providing for commercial and industrial advances throughout Great Britain. The importance of the system of patronage which enabled so many Scots to go to the East has not hitherto been recognised and cannot be overestimated. It bound the Scots with their English neighbours in business, political management and empire, with consequences going far beyond the eighteenth century.

Book's by George Stuart

Millenarianism Defended: a Reply To Prof. Stuart's "Strictures On The Rev. G. Duffield's Recent Work On The Second Coming of Christ

Millenarianism Defended: a Reply To Prof. Stuart's "Strictures On The Rev. G. Duffield's Recent Work On The Second Coming of Christ

East India Patronage and the British State

East India Patronage and the British State

The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina: 1514-1861

The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina: 1514-1861

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