Scotland From the Treaty of Union With England to the Present Time, (1707-1907) (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Scotland From the Treaty of Union With England to the Present Time, (1707-1907)The ordinary text-book of Scottish history invariably ends with the Treaty of Union in 1707 and text-books of English or British history rarely contain any reference to Scottish affairs after that event, except perhaps a brief account of the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745. Scotland, however, did not break away from her own past at the union, but continued her national history, not only as an integral part of the British Empire, but as a separate kingdom. It is indeed with the union that the proudest and most instructive period of Scottish history begins, for it was then that Scotland began to assert her real in¿uence as a nation on the affairs of the empire and of the world. That in¿uence has been so great and so beneficial in all departments of human activity that the story of the development and progress of the social, industrial, and political life of Scotland since the union forms one of the most interesting and instructive chapters of modern history, yet it is a chapter which is generally but little known even in Scotland. The reason for this is no doubt to a large extent the practical absence from our school histories of all reference to Scotland during this period.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.