Scottish History For Dummies

Part IV

The Unmaking of a Nation (1540–1750)

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In this part …

Look at the Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the subsequent attempts by James VI and I and his son Charles I to unite England and Scotland through religious reforms and the civil wars they provoked.

Examine the reasons behind the Treaty of Union of 1707, the failure of the Darien Scheme and the famine of the 1690s.

Consider the economic and political consequences of union for Scotland and how the Scots got drawn into the slave trade.

See how Scotland was governed after voluntarily giving up its own parliament.

Understand the Jacobite rebellions in the 18th century and how defeat in 1745 forever changed Scotland in general and the Highlands in particular.