The Dundas Despotism
By Michael Fry
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Using a mass of new primary and secondary material culled from England, Scotland, Ireland and the United States, Michael Fry here challenges the traditional view that theirs was a corrupt and authoritarian regime. He shows that both father and son sought to achieve good government within the accepted political conventions of the age, and that many of the principles they set out to apply were owed directly to Scottish Enlightenment ideas. The Dundases were also of fundamental importance in drawing Scotland more fully into the United Kingdom and enabling the Union of 1707 to work. This is a sparkling reassessment of a crucial period of Scottish, British and imperial history. The Dundas Despotism was previously published by Edinburgh University Press.
Michael Fry
Michael Fry has been a cartoonist and bestselling writer for over thirty years. He has created or cocreated four internationally syndicated comic strips, including Over the Hedge, which is featured in newspapers nationwide and was adapted into the DreamWorks Animation hit animated movie of the same name. He is also the author and illustrator of the bestselling middle grade novel series How to Be a Supervillain and The Odd Squad. He lives on a small ranch near Austin, Texas, with his wife, Kim, and a dozen or so unnamed shrub-eating cows. Follow him on Twitter at @MFryActual.
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