Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-363) and index.
Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; A Note on the Cover Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Contrasts and Comparisons; Structure, Narrative and Critique; Sources and Conventions; Marxist Theory and Scottish History; Introduction; Three Interpretations of the Anglo-Scottish Union; Contextualising the Treaty of Union; Marxism and the Scottish Revolution; Patterns of Bourgeois Revolution; The Bourgeois Revolution in Scottish History; 1. Scotland in the Late Seventeenth Century; Lords, Peasants and Industrial Serfs; Burgesses and Indwellers; Officers, Lawyers and Ministers.
Highland and LowlandThe Balance of Social Forces; 2. Three Dimensions of Socio-economic Crisis (the 1690s); Trade Wars and Shooting Wars; 'Death in the Face of the Poor'; The Debacle of Scottish Colonialism; The Balance Sheet of the 1690s; 3. From Hanoverian Succession to Incorporating Union (1700-1707); Class and Party in the Last Scottish Parliament; A Class Divided; A Union is Announced; The Struggle Over Ratification; Explaining the Union; 4. Scotland and the British State: From Crisis to Consolidation (1708-1716); Three Perspectives on Jacobitism.
The British State versus Scottish Society?1715: Dress Rehearsals for the End; 5. Social Transformation and Agricultural Improvement (1717-1744); The Consequences of Combined and Uneven Development; The Pivotal Role of Agriculture; The Lowlands; The Highlands; 6. The End of the British Revolution (1745-1746); Two Sources of the '45; Victims of a Dying Feudalism; In the Hour of Civil War; Endgame; 'Barbarians and Enemies of All Civil Society'; The End of Feudalism in Scotland; Epilogue: The Scottish Path to Capitalist Development (1747-1815).
Theoreticians and Practitioners of Passive RevolutionThe Revolution After the Revolution; 'A Different Class of Beings'; Conclusion; A Revolutionary Alternative from Below?; Culloden, the Highland Clearances and Capitalist Development; Documents of Civilisation and Barbarism; Appendix: Marx and Engels on Scotland; British Capitalism; Political Economy and the Scottish Enlightenment; The Scottish Reformation; The Constitutional Form of the British State; Bibliographical Essay; Notes and References; Index.
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A reassessment of Scottish politics and society in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century.
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