LEADER 03270oam 2200589I 450 001 9910953279603321 005 20251117090026.0 010 $a1-315-24093-9 010 $a1-351-89353-X 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315240930 035 $a(CKB)3710000001081710 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4816743 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4816743 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11355930 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL997368 035 $a(OCoLC)975223701 035 $a(OCoLC)974642150 035 $a(BIP)61810295 035 $a(BIP)7541257 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001081710 100 $a20180706e20162002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe British Union $ea critical edition and translation of David Hume of Godscroft's De unione Insulae Britannicae /$fedited and translated by Paul J. McGinnis and Arthur H. Williamson 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (350 pages) 225 1 $aSt. Andrews Studies in Reformation History 300 $aFirst published 2002 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 08$a0-7546-0340-7 311 08$a1-351-89354-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Tractatus Primus -- Tractatus Secundus. 330 $aDe Unione Insulae Britannicae (The British Union) is a unique seventeenth-century tract that urged the fusion of the Scottish and English kingdoms into a new British commonwealth with a radically new British identity. Its author, David Hume of Godscroft (1558-c.1630) was a major intellectual figure in Jacobean Scotland and the leading Scottish critic of the anglicizing policies of James VI. The tract was written in two parts. Published in London in 1605, the first part provides a general outline of the imperative of union. The second consists of political and constitutional proposals whereby such a union might be achieved. Its publication was suppressed and it exists only in manuscript. This is the first translation of the tract. Hume's work is breathtakingly contemporary in some of the proposals that it makes; regional assemblies combined with a national parliament, and a call for efforts to inspire the Scottish and English people into a sense of common purpose. The language and ideas of the tract display characteristics of the Renaissance combined with elements that visibly anticipate the Enlightenment. The De Unione offers extraordinary insight into the European intellectual world prior to the rise of romantic nationalism in the early nineteenth century. 410 0$aSt. Andrews studies in Reformation history. 606 $aPolitical science$vEarly works to 1800 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$vEarly works to 1800 607 $aScotland$xPolitics and government$vEarly works to 1800 615 0$aPolitical science 676 $a941.06/1 700 $aHume$b David$f1560?-1630?,$0937447 701 $aMcGinnis$b Paul J$01868306 701 $aWilliamson$b Arthur H$01868307 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953279603321 996 $aThe British Union$94476171 997 $aUNINA