A Critique of Linda Colley's Britons

In 1707, the Act of Union completed the political unity of England, Scotland, and Wales, declaring the three very culturally, economically, and politically different regions as Great Britain. For example, although Scotland and England were economically interdependent, they were still two culturally distinct, self-governing regions geographically divided by poor transport and navigation and long distance, therefore, many felt as if the union betrayed their regional independence. For more than one hundred years, the island's inhabitants struggled to find meaning behind their forced unity through changes within and influences without, and that struggle continues today as well. 
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