Contents

pp v-vi

List of Contributors

pp vii-viii

Preface

pp ix-x

List of Abbreviations

pp xi-xii

1 - Covenants, Clans and Unions in Context: Celebrating the Scholarship of Allan I. Macinnes

pp 1-18

Part I - Peoples and Cultures in Britain and Ireland

pp 19-20

2 - The Commonwealth Refounded: the British Vision in its Edwardian Moment, 1547–50

pp 21-33

3 - Island Empire: James VI and I and the Isle of Man in an Archipelagic Context

pp 34-48

4 - The Forgotten Crisis of the Sixteenth-Century Irish Aristocracy

pp 49-66

Part II - War, Religion and the House of Stuart

pp 67-68

5 - The Auld Alliance and the French Intervention in the Thirty Years’ War, 1630–48

pp 69-83

6 - Scotophobia in Later Stuart England

pp 84-98

7 - Alexander Shields (c. 1660–1700) on the Right of Punitive Arms

pp 99-115

8 - Charles Edward Stuart and Seven Hundred Irish Soldiers? A Reappraisal of a Turning Point in the ‘45

pp 116-132

Part III - Union, Empire and Enlightenment

pp 133-134

9 - From Didactic to Pragmatic: What Scottish Enlightenment?

pp 135-149

10 - The Two Rabs’ Big Adventure: Scottish Networks and Influence in Imperial Britain

pp 150-166

11 - Confederal Union and Empire: Placing the Albany Plan (1754) in Imperial Context

pp 167-187

12 - The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Influences on Land Legislation in Scotland and Ireland in the Late Nineteenth Century

pp 188-202

List of Publications

pp 203-210

Index

pp 211-216

Tabula Gratulatoria

pp 217-218

Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History

pp 219-223