Scottish Public Opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union, 1699-1707

[A] first rate dissection of Scottish public opinion during the discussions over Anglo-Scottish union. * ANNUAL BULLETIN OF HISTORICAL LITERATURE - EIGHTEENTH CENTURY *
Takes an innovative approach on a relatively unexplored topic [...] that has often been sidelined or marginalized. * . *
With the publication of this book, public opinion and its impact must be incorporated into the historiography, and in that sense we now have a greater understanding of the union issue outside the elites. [...] A very good book. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *
A model of its kind. * HISTORY SCOTLAND *
In the middle of a radical reappraisal of the road to 1707...Karin Bowie's monograph is among the latest and most original contributions to an improved understanding of that process. [...] * . *
[A] dazzling examination of the mass, extra-parliamentary agitations against incorporating union. [...] A highly original and rigorous examination of the new adversarial opinion politics the Scottish opposition invented in 1699-1707. [...] Only very rarely has a work of history spoken so directly to a nation's present dilemmas and discontents as Bowie's does to ours. * PERSPECTIVES *
Offers a fresh analysis of the relationship between public opinion and the making of the union. [...] It is now the standard text on the politics ofpublic opinion and the Union of 1707. * EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SCOTLAND, Spring 2008 *
Of the many books on the Union of 1707 that were released in the year of its three hundredth anniversary, Karin Bowie's study of Scottish Public Opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union stands out as unique. [...] Makes a brave and highly original contribution to two important debates, and it will be of interest to anyone working on either the early modern public sphere or the 1707 Union itself. * JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES, July 2008, vol 47, no3 *