The extraordinary influence of Scots in the British Empire has long
been recognized. 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 interactive
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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