The British Union A Critical Edition And Translation Of David Hume Of Godscrofts De Unione Insulae Britannicae 1st Edition Paul J Mcginnis Professor Alec Ryrie Arthur H Williamson Professor Euan Cameron Professor Bruce Gordon Dr Bridget Heal Professor Roger A Mason Professor Amy Nelson Burnett Dr Andrew Pettegree Professor Kaspar Von Greyerz by Paul J. Mcginnis; Professor Alec Ryrie; Arthur H. Williamson; Professor Euan Cameron; Professor Bruce Gordon; Dr. Bridget Heal; Professor Roger A. Mason; Professor Amy Nelson Burnett; Dr. Andrew Pettegree; Professor Kaspar Von Greyerz 9781351893534, 135189353X instant download after payment.

De 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.