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The Scottish Empire

Author : Michael Fry
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788854322
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book The Scottish Empire written by Michael Fry and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Michael Fry's remarkable book charts the involvement of the Scots in the British empire from its earliest days to the end of the twentieth century. It is a tale of dramatic extremes and craggy characters and of a huge range of concerns - from education, evangelism and philanthropy to spying, swindling and drug running. Stories of Scottish regiments on the rampage, cannibalism and other atrocities are contrasted with the deeds of heroic pioneers such as David Livingstone and Mary Slessor. Above all it tells how the British empire came to be dominated and run by the Scots, and how it truly became a Scottish empire. As the empire transformed Scotland beyond recognition, so was the Empire shaped by the Scots - a remarkable achievement from the population of so small a country, which was itself neither nation nor fully province, neither fully colonizer nor fully colonized. Michael Fry's energetic and colourful account is one of the classics of modern Scottish history.

Scotland's Empire

Author : Thomas Martin Devine
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9780718193195
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Scotland's Empire written by Thomas Martin Devine and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [This book] tells the ... story of Scotland's role in forging and expanding the Briutish Empire, from the Americas to Australia, India to the Caribbean. By 1820 Britain controlled a fifth of the world's population, and no people had made a more essential contribution than the Scots - working across the globe as soldiers and merchants, administrators and clerics, doctors and teachers. ... Devine traces the vital part Scotland played in creating an empire - and the fundamental effect this had in moulding the modern Scottish nation."--Back cover.

Scotland and the British Empire

Author : John M. MacKenzie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199573247
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Scotland and the British Empire written by John M. MacKenzie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the key roles of Scots in central aspects of the Atlantic and imperial economies from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, and demonstrates that an understanding of the 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 Empire.

Empire and Emancipation

Author : S. Karly Kehoe
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487541082
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Empire and Emancipation written by S. Karly Kehoe and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon the experiences of Scottish and Irish Catholics in Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, Newfoundland, and Trinidad, Empire and Emancipation sheds important new light on the complex relationship between Catholicism and the British Empire.

Scotland's Empire, 1600-1815

Author : Thomas Martin Devine
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9780140296877
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Scotland's Empire, 1600-1815 written by Thomas Martin Devine and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scots had an enormous impact on the global development of the British Empire as emigrants, soldiers, merchants and colonial administrators. This book explores in depth many key themes including the slave trade, the Scots on the colonial frontier, Highland soldiers and more.

The Scottish Nation at Empire's End

Author : B. Glass
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137427302
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book The Scottish Nation at Empire's End written by B. Glass and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise and fall of the British Empire profoundly shaped the history of modern Scotland and the identity of its people. From the Act of Union in 1707 to the dramatic fall of the British Empire following the Second World War, Scotland's involvement in commerce, missionary activity, cultural dissemination, emigration, and political action could not be dissociated from British overseas endeavours. In fact, Scottish national pride and identity were closely associated with the benefits bestowed on this small nation through its access to the British Empire. By examining the opinions of Scots towards the empire from numerous professional and personal backgrounds, Scotland emerges as a nation inextricably linked to the British Empire. Whether Scots categorized themselves as proponents, opponents, or victims of empire, one conclusion is clear: they maintained an abiding interest in the empire even as it rapidly disintegrated during the twenty-year period following the Second World War. In turn, the end of the British Empire coincided with the rise of Scottish nationalism and calls for Scotland to extricate itself from the Union. Decolonization had a major impact on Scottish political consciousness in the years that followed 1965, and the implications for the sustainability of the British state are still unfolding today.

Scottish Presbyterianism and Settler Colonial Politics

Author : Valerie Wallace
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319704672
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Scottish Presbyterianism and Settler Colonial Politics written by Valerie Wallace and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new interpretation of political reform in the settler colonies of Britain’s empire in the early nineteenth century. It examines the influence of Scottish Presbyterian dissenting churches and their political values. It re-evaluates five notorious Scottish reformers and unpacks the Presbyterian foundation to their political ideas: Thomas Pringle (1789-1834), a poet in Cape Town; Thomas McCulloch (1776-1843), an educator in Pictou; John Dunmore Lang (1799-1878), a church minister in Sydney; William Lyon Mackenzie (1795-1861), a rebel in Toronto; and Samuel McDonald Martin (1805?-1848), a journalist in Auckland. The book weaves the five migrants’ stories together for the first time and demonstrates how the campaigns they led came to be intertwined. The book will appeal to historians of Scotland, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the British Empire and the Scottish diaspora.

Scotland and the British Empire

Author : John M. MacKenzie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192513532
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Scotland and the British Empire written by John M. MacKenzie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Darien

Author : John Prebble
Publisher : Birlinn Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781841580548
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Darien written by John Prebble and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In defiance of the king and in the face of English hostility, the Scottish parliament set out to establish a colony in Central America. This dream of William Paterson, founder of the Bank of England was to end in disaster.

Scotland, empire and decolonisation in the twentieth century

Author : Bryan Glass
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1784992259
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Book Synopsis Scotland, empire and decolonisation in the twentieth century by : Bryan Glass

Download or read book Scotland, empire and decolonisation in the twentieth century written by Bryan Glass and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents one of the first attempts to examine the connection between Scotland and the British empire throughout the entire twentieth century. As the century dawned, the Scottish economy was still strongly connected with imperial infrastructures (like railways, engineering, construction and shipping), and colonial trade and investment. By the end of the century, however, the Scottish economy, its politics, and its society had been through major upheavals which many connected with decolonisation. The end of empire played a defining role in shaping modern-day Scotland and the identity of its people. Written by scholars of distinction, these chapters represent ground-breaking research in the field of Scotland’s complex and often-changing relationship with the British empire in the period. The introduction that opens the collection will be viewed for years to come as the single most important historiographical statement on Scotland and empire during the tumultuous years of the twentieth century. A final chapter from Stuart Ward and Jimmi Østergaard Nielsen covers the 2014 referendum.

Scotland's Global Empire

Author : Jock Gallagher
Publisher : Whittles
ISBN 13 : 9781849951029
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Scotland's Global Empire written by Jock Gallagher and published by Whittles. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland's Global Empire is packed with fascinating information that demonstrates the scale of Scots' contribution to making the world a better place over the last two centuries.

Scottish Empire

Author : Andrew Dewar Gibb
Publisher : London : A. Maclehose
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Scottish Empire written by Andrew Dewar Gibb and published by London : A. Maclehose. This book was released on 1937 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union (until 1707)

Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748628622
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Book Synopsis Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union (until 1707) by : Ian Brown

Download or read book Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union (until 1707) written by Ian Brown and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History begins with the first full-scale critical consideration of Scotland's earliest literature, drawn from the diverse cultures and languages of its early peoples. The first volume covers the literature produced during the medieval and early modern period in Scotland, surveying the riches of Scottish work in Gaelic, Welsh, Old Norse, Old English and Old French, as well as in Latin and Scots. New scholarship is brought to bear, not only on imaginative literature, but also law, politics, theology and philosophy, all placed in the context of the evolution of Scotland's geography, history, languages and material cultures from our earliest times up to 1707.

Scotland, Britain, Empire

Author : Kenneth McNeil
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814210473
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Scotland, Britain, Empire written by Kenneth McNeil and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland, Britain, Empire takes on a cliché that permeates writing from and about the literature of the Scottish Highlands. Popular and influential in its time, this literature fell into disrepute for circulating a distorted and deforming myth that aided in Scotland's marginalization by consigning Scottish culture into the past while drawing a mist over harsher realities. Kenneth McNeil invokes recent work in postcolonial studies to show how British writers of the Romantic period were actually shaping a more complex national and imperial consciousness. He discusses canonical works--the works of James Macpherson and Sir Walter Scott--and noncanonical and nonliterary works--particularly in the fields of historiography, anthropology, and sociology. This book calls for a rethinking of the "romanticization" of the Highlands and shows that Scottish writing on the Highlands reflects the unique circumstances of a culture simultaneously feeling the weight of imperial "anglobalization" while playing a vital role in its inception. While writers from both sides of the Highland line looked to the traditions, language, and landscape of the Highlands to define their national character, the Highlands were deemed the space of the primitive--like other spaces around the globe brought under imperial sway. But this concern with the value and fate of indigenousness was in fact a turn to the modern.

Scotland and the Indian Empire

Author : Alan Tritton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786726556
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Scotland and the Indian Empire written by Alan Tritton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of two Scotsmen, Baillie and Edmonstone, who went out to India in 1782 and 1791 respectively, to earn their fortune. Neil Edmonstone rose through the ranks to be appointed the Acting Governor-General of India, Secretary of the Secret, Foreign and Political Department and for more than 20 years the Chief Intelligence Officer of the Company. John Baillie was appointed the Political Agent, aged 30, for Bundelkhand, which he brought successfully under British control, before his appointment as British Resident at Lucknow in 1807. Both men had no less than 21 Anglo-Scottish and Scottish-Indian children, 9 of whom were all sent back to Inverness in Scotland to be educated and brought up by John's sister Margaret Baillie. This book tells us their stories as well as those of their parents.

Scotland's Empire and the Shaping of the Americas, 1600-1815

Author : Thomas Martin Devine
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Scotland's Empire and the Shaping of the Americas, 1600-1815 written by Thomas Martin Devine and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 2004 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devine, who is director of research at the AHRB Center for Irish and Scottish studies at the University of Aberdeen, demonstrates that Scots were involved in the British Empire's (or before 1707, the English Empire's) expansion into Quebec and British North America, the Caribbean, India, and Australia. He also chronicles the ideas, hardships, and accomplishments of the Scots who left their homeland; describes Scottish contributions in the Napoleonic Wars; discusses Scotland's industrial transformation; and addresses the influence of Scottish thinkers David Hume and Adam Smith on the authors of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. His final chapter looks at Scottish identity in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Scottish Soldier and Empire, 1854-1902

Author : Edward M. Spiers
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 074862726X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Scottish Soldier and Empire, 1854-1902 written by Edward M. Spiers and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scottish Soldier and Empire, 1854-1902 reflects upon the iconic role of the Scottish soldier as an empire builder from the Crimean War to the end of the nineteenth century. It examines how the soldier commented on this imperial experience, largely through letter, diaries and poems published in the provincial press, how his exploits were reviewed in Scotland and how military achievements contributed to both a growing sense of national identity and a deepening degree of imperial commitment.