Empire and union : two concepts of the early modern European political order / John Robertson -- English debate over universal monarchy / Steven Pincus -- Power, commerce and natural law in Daniel Defoe's political writings 1698-1707 / Laurence Dickey -- Scottish vision of empire : intellectual origins of the Darien venture / David Armitage -- Scottish cultural change 1660-1710 and the Union of 1707 / Roger L. Emerson -- Religious realignment between the Restoration and Union / Colin Kidd -- Protestant theologies, limited sovereignties : natural law and conditions of union in the German Empire, the Netherlands and Great Britain / James Moore and Michael Silverthorne -- Elusive sovereignty. The course of the Union debate in Scotland 1698-1707 / John Robertson -- From Revolution principles to Union : Daniel Defoe's intervention with the Scottish debate / Katherine R. Penovich -- Scottish law, Scottish lawyers and the status of the Union / John W. Cairns -- Ireland without Union : Molyneux and his legacy / Jacqueline Hill -- Legacy of British Union for the North American colonies : provincial elites and the problem of Imperial Union / Ned Landsman -- Empire, state and confederation : the War of American Independence as a crisis in multiple monarchy / J.G.A. Pocock
