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The impact of the Union of 1707 on early eighteenth-century Fife electoral politics, 1707-1747
No full textIn an unprecedented act of peaceful, albeit contentious, statesmanship, the 1707 Treaty of Union joined Scotland and England into one sovereign country. Now governed by the
Parliament of Great Britain, Scotland was allowed forty-five parliamentary members divided between the country's counties and burghs. Relinquishing its own Parliament, Scotland was obligated to adapt and to accept a seismic shift in the political management of its government.
Not only were Scottish politics affected by this shift at a national level, but local elections were also significantly impacted by this change. Due to its physical size, peculiar demographics, and politically-active gentry, the county of Fife has proven to be an ideal subject for studying this process. By providing a comprehensive examination of the impact of the Union on the local government and electoral politics of one Scottish county, this study shows that while the Union fundamentally altered the manner in which local politics
functioned, the localities not only adapted to the new electoral procedures, but party politics in particular were allowed to grow and flourish.
Fife's county records have proven to be a particularly rich and underused resource for this study. The minute books of town council meetings for each of Fife's major royal burghs, covering the years 1707-1747, have been examined, along with a complete set of minutes from the Commissioners of Supply, the county body responsible for the collection of the land tax and, crucially, for determining electoral qualification. Correspondence, in the form of letters and memoranda from Fife's leading politicians, has allowed the reconstruction of several important elections which in tum provide evidence for the argument that party
politics in Scotland not only survived after Union but also thrived in an era of unparalleled electoral competition.
Partially owing to the reduction in parliamentary representation at Westminster, the political parties in Scotland experienced tremendous growth. Contrary to recent historiography, however, no significant evidence of corruption was found in the operations of the county franchise from the first Fife elections held in 1708 through to 1747, the end of the present
study's span. The burgh electoral structure, conversely, both permitted and experienced
gross manipulation by the parties competing for the few parliamentary seats now allocated to the Scottish burghs.
This study demonstrates that political parties thrived in the new era of Scottish partisan politics ushered in by Union. Fife, in particular, adapted creatively to the new order. This suggests that an increasingly vibrant culture oflocal political competition and argument in
the early eighteenth century was actually a likely consequence at the local level of Scotland's national integration into the new state of Great Britain
Le triomphe de la vertu : pastorale en musique, representée devant son altesse sérénissime de Cologne, le dixième juillet M.DCC.VII [1707]
No full text[Programme. 1707-07-10. Lille, Collège de la Compagnie de Jésus][Programme. Théâtre de collège. Lille, Collège de la Compagnie de Jésus. 1707-0710]Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : NordPdeC1Avec mode text
Kriegsschauplatz in Flandern 1707
No full textKRIEGSSCHAUPLATZ IN FLANDERN 1707
Graphische Beilagen zum IX. Band (I. Serie) des Werkes Feldzüge des Prinzen Eugen von Savoyen (-)
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Grimm, Friedrich - (1707-1777) Porträt
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Grimm, Friedrich - (1707-1777) Porträt ( -
Chart of the China Sea inscribed to Monfr. D'Apres de Mannevillette the Ingenious author of the Neptune Oriental as a tribute to his labours for the benefit of Navigation and in acknowledgement of his many signal favours to Dalrymple. [cartographic material]
No full textChart of the China Sea.; Plate 52 from: Le Neptune oriental, dedie au roi /par M. d'Apres de Mannevillette. Paris ; Brest [France] : Chez Demonville, Imprimeur-Libraire de l'Academie Francoise ; Chez Malassis, Imprimeur-Libraire de la Marine, 1775.; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-ra49-s32
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
IX A 1 - Alte Stadtrechnungen (1707 - 1708)
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IX A 1 - Alte Stadtrechnungen (1706 - 1707)
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IX A 1 - Alte Stadtrechnungen (1706 - 1707)
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