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The Scots in South Africa - Ethnicity, Identity, Gender and Race, 1772-1914 (Paperback)
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The Scots in South Africa - Ethnicity, Identity, Gender and Race, 1772-1914 (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Imperialism
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The description of South Africa as a 'rainbow nation' has always
been taken to embrace the black, brown and white peoples who
constitute its population. But each of these groups can be
sub-divided and in the white case, the Scots have made one of the
most distinctive contributions to the country's history. The Scots,
as in North America and Australasia, constituted an important
element in the patterns of White settlement. They were already
present in the area of Dutch East India Company rule and, after the
first British occupation of the Cape in 1795, their numbers rose
dramatically. They were exceptionally active in such areas as
exploration, botanical and scientific endeavour, military
campaigns, the emergence of Christian missions, Western education,
intellectual institutions, the professions as well as enterprise
and technical developments, business, commerce and journalism. This
book is the first full-length study of their role from the
eighteenth to twentieth centuries. It highlights the interaction of
Scots with African peoples, the manner in which missions and
schools were credited with producing 'Black Scotsmen' and the ways
in which they pursued many distinctive policies. It also deals with
the inter-weaving of issues of gender, class and race as well as
with the means by which Scots clung to their ethnicity through
founding various social and cultural societies. This book offers a
major contribution to both Scottish and South African history and
in the process illuminates a significant field of the Scottish
Diaspora that has so far received little attention.
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