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.
All scholars and general readers interested in the dispersal of
intellectual ideas, key professions, Protestantism, environmental
practices, and colonial literature, as well as more traditional
approaches to politics, economics, and military recruitment, will
find it an essential addition to the historical literature.
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