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East India Patronage and the British State - The Scottish Elite and Politics in the Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
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The Act of Union in 1707 brought with it a new 'Great Britain'. How
did the English bind the Scottish elites to the new British State,
ensuring the stability of this new power in the face of possible
Jacobite and international threat? From 1725 a patronage system
existed in Britain enabling government ministries to use posts in
the East India Company and its shipping to secure political
majorities in Scotland and Westminster. Scots went to India as
Company servants, ships' crews, soldiers and free-merchants,
bringing back exceptional wealth to a land starved of money and
providing for commercial and industrial advances throughout Great
Britain. The importance of the system of patronage which enabled so
many Scots to go to the East has not hitherto been recognised and
cannot be overestimated. It bound the Scots with their English
neighbours in business, political management and empire, with
consequences going far beyond the eighteenth century.
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