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Scotland and the British Empire, edited by John M. MacKenzie and T.M. Devine

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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non fiction

Scotland and the British Empire

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751748743

edited by John M. MacKenzie and T.M. Devine

Oxford history of the British empire--companion series

The extraordinary influence of Scots in the British Empire has long been recognised. As administrators, settlers, temporary residents, professionals, plantation owners, and as military personnel, they were strikingly prominent in North America, the Caribbean, Australasia, South Africa, India, and colonies in South-East Asia and Africa. Throughout these regions they brought to bear distinctive Scottish experience as well as particular educational, economic, cultural, and religious influences. Moreover, the relationship between Scots and the British Empire had a profound effect upon many aspects of Scottish society. This volume of essays, written by notable scholars in the field, examines the key roles of Scots in central aspects of the Atlantic and imperial economies from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, in East India Company rule in India, migration and the preservation of ethnic identities, the environment, the army, missionary and other religious activities, the dispersal of intellectual endeavours, and in the production of a distinctive literature rooted in colonial experience. Making use of recent, innovative research, the chapters demonstrate that an understanding of the profoundly inter-active relationship between Scotland and the British Empire is vital both for the understanding of the histories of that country and of many territories of the British Empire. -- Book jacket

Scots in the Atlantic economy, 1600-1800 / T.M. Devine and Philipp R. Rössner -- Locality, nation, and empire : Scots and the empire in Asia, c.1695-c.1813 / Andrew Mackillop -- Empire of intellect : the Scottish Enlightenment and Scotland's intellectual migrants / Cairns Craig -- Scottish migrant ethnic identities in the British Empire since the nineteenth century / Angela McCarthy -- Scots and the environment of empire / John M. MacKenzie -- Soldiers of empire, 1750-1914 / T.M. Devine -- Scots churches and missions / Esther Breitenbach -- Scots in the imperial economy / T.M. Devine and John M. MacKenzie -- Scottish literature and the British Empire / Angela Smith -- National identity, union, and empire, c.1850-c.1970 / Richard J. Finlay