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This is the first book wholly devoted to assessing the array of
links between Scotland and the Caribbean in the later eighteenth
century. It uses a wide range of archival sources to paint a
detailed picture of the lives of thousands of Scots who sought
fortunes and opportunities, as Burns wrote, 'across th' Atlantic
roar'. It outlines the range of their occupations as planters,
merchants, slave owners, doctors, overseers, and politicians, and
shows how Caribbean connections affected Scottish society during
the period of 'improvement'. The book highlights the Scots'
reinvention of the system of clanship to structure their social
relations in the empire and finds that involvement in the Caribbean
also bound Scots and English together in a shared Atlantic imperial
enterprise and played a key role in the emergence of the British
nation and the Atlantic World. -- .
This is the first book to explore national representations of
slavery in an international comparative perspective. Contributions
span a wide geographical range, covering Europe, North America,
West and South Africa, the Indian Ocean and Asia.
This is the first book to explore national representations of
slavery in an international comparative perspective. Contributions
span a wide geographical range, covering Europe, North America,
West and South Africa, the Indian Ocean and Asia.
This thoughtful, and often amusing, memoir traces the life of James
Douglas-Hamilton, which has seen him serve in three different
chambers. Following 23 Years as a Conservative MP at Westminster,
he became a member of the new Scottish Parliament and now sits in
the House of Lords. Through his eyes we gain a fascinating insight
into historic events - from his early memories as a pageboy at the
Queen's coronation to his time as a Minister for Margaret
Thatcher's Government. Previously unpublished correspondences
between the author and the Iron Lady shed new light on the
controversial decision to introduce the community charge, or poll
tax, in Scotland. This memoir also includes new material from
recently declassified MI5 papers documenting the mysterious flight
to Britain made by Rudolf Hess, the Nazi Deputy Leader, during the
Second World War to see the author's father. Douglas-Hamilton's
research into this extraordinary episode, and the evidence he has
uncovered definitively lay the conspiracy theories to rest. James
Douglas-Hamilton has peopled the pages of this book with the
colourful characters he encountered during his long years of public
service, including Harold Macmillan, Helen Suzman, Jomo Kenyatta
and, of course, the indomitable Margaret Thatcher.
The last decade has brought dramatic changes in the way that
researchers analyze economic and financial time series. This book
synthesizes these recent advances and makes them accessible to
first-year graduate students. James Hamilton provides the first
adequate text-book treatments of important innovations such as
vector autoregressions, generalized method of moments, the economic
and statistical consequences of unit roots, time-varying variances,
and nonlinear time series models. In addition, he presents basic
tools for analyzing dynamic systems (including linear
representations, autocovariance generating functions, spectral
analysis, and the Kalman filter) in a way that integrates economic
theory with the practical difficulties of analyzing and
interpreting real-world data. "Time Series Analysis" fills an
important need for a textbook that integrates economic theory,
econometrics, and new results.
The book is intended to provide students and researchers with a
self-contained survey of time series analysis. It starts from first
principles and should be readily accessible to any beginning
graduate student, while it is also intended to serve as a reference
book for researchers.
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