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Human capital and empire compares the role of Scots, Irish and
Welsh within the English East India Company between c. 1690 and c.
1820. It focuses on why the three groups developed such distinctive
and different profiles within the corporation and its wider
colonial activities in Asia. Besides contributing to the national
histories of Scotland, Ireland and Wales, it uses these societies
to ask how ‘poorer’ regions of Europe participated in global
empire. The chapters cover involvement in the Company’s
administrative, military, medical, maritime and private trade
activities. The analysis conceives of sojourning to Asia as a cycle
of human capital, with human mobility used to access a key sector
of world trade. As well as providing essential new statistical
information on Irish, Scottish and Welsh participation, it makes a
significant contribution to ongoing debates on the legacies of
empire. -- .
Human capital and empire compares the role of Scots, Irish and
Welsh within the English East India Company between c. 1690 and c.
1820. It focuses on why the three groups developed such distinctive
and different profiles within the corporation and its wider
colonial activities in Asia. Besides contributing to the national
histories of Scotland, Ireland and Wales, it uses these societies
to ask how 'poorer' regions of Europe participated in global
empire. The chapters cover involvement in the Company's
administrative, military, medical, maritime and private trade
activities. The analysis conceives of sojourning to Asia as a cycle
of human capital, with human mobility used to access a key sector
of world trade. As well as providing essential new statistical
information on Irish, Scottish and Welsh participation, it makes a
significant contribution to ongoing debates on the legacies of
empire. -- .
This volume examines the impact of military activity upon
Scotland's national identity as the country underwent a fundamental
transition through domestic centralisation at the turn of the
seventeenth century, integration into the United Kingdom in 1707,
and as a partner in Britain's global empire during the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries. It is divided into three thematic
sections that examine the evolution of Scottish military identity
over the early modern period, how the Highland region moved from a
relationship of hostility to the Lowland political authorities to
the central element in eighteenth and ninteenth century Scottish
soldiering, and, finally, how aspects of Scotland's civilian
society interrelated with her soldiers.
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