Scotlands Empire Shaping Amer

Author : Thomas Martin Devine
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004774401

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SCOTLANDS EMPIRE SHAPING AMER by Thomas Martin Devine Pdf

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).

Author : Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society,John Carter Brown Library
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0838754880

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Nation and Province in the First British Empire by Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society,John Carter Brown Library Pdf

For more than four decades, historians have devoted ever-increasing attention to the affinites that linked Scotland with the American colonies in the eighteenth century. This volume moves beyond earlier discussions in two ways. For one, the geographical coverage of the papers extends beyond the territories that became the United States to include what became Canada, The Carribean and even Africa. For another, the volume attends not only those areas in which Scotland was closely linked to the Americas, but also to those where it was not.

Author : Michael Fry
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0312338767

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How the Scots Made America by Michael Fry Pdf

Ever since they first set foot in the new world alongside the Viking explorers the Scots have left their mark. In this entertaining and informative book, historian Michael Fry shows how Americans of Scottish heritage helped shape this country, from its founding days to the present. They were courageous pioneers, history-changing revolutionaries, great Presidents, doughty fighters, inspiring writers, learned teachers, intrepid explorers, daring frontiersmen, and of course buccaneering businessmen, media moguls, and capitalists throughout American history. The Scots' unflappable spirit and hardy disposition helped them take root among the earliest settlements and become some of the British colonies' foremost traders. During the Revolution, the teachings of the great Scottish philosophers and economists would help to shape the democracy that thrived in America as in no other part of the world. America may have separated from the British Empire, but the Scottish influence on the young continent never left. Armed with an inimitable range of historical knowledge, Fry charts the exchange of ideas and values between the Scotland and America that led to many of the greatest achievements in business, science, and the arts. Finally, he takes readers into the twentieth century, in which the Scots serve as the ideal example of a people that have embraced globalization without losing their sense of history, culture and national identity. Scottish Americans have been incomparable innovators in every branch of American society, and their fascinating story is brilliantly captured in this new book by one of Scotland's leading historians. How the Scots Made America is not only a must-read for all those with Scottish ancestry but for anyone interested in knowing the full story behind the roots of the American way of life.

Author : Michael Fry
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788854320

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The Scottish Empire by Michael Fry Pdf

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.

Author : John M. MacKenzie,T. M. Devine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199573240

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Scotland and the British Empire by John M. MacKenzie,T. M. Devine Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas Martin Devine
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0718193199

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Scotland's Empire by Thomas Martin Devine Pdf

[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.

Author : Thomas Martin Devine
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0140296875

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Scotland's Empire, 1600-1815 by Thomas Martin Devine Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Fry
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466865488

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How the Scots Made America by Michael Fry Pdf

Ever since they first set foot in the new world alongside the Viking explorers, the Scots have left their mark. In this entertaining and informative book, historian Michael Fry shows how Americans of Scottish heritage helped shape this country, from its founding days to the present. They were courageous pioneers, history-changing revolutionaries, great Presidents, doughty fighters, inspiring writers, learned teachers, intrepid explorers, daring frontiersmen, and of course buccaneering businessmen, media moguls, and capitalists throughout American history. The Scots' unflappable spirit and hardy disposition helped them take root among the earliest settlements and become some of the British colonies' foremost traders. During the Revolution, the teachings of the great Scottish philosophers and economists would help to shape the democracy that thrived in America as in no other part of the world. America may have separated from the British Empire, but the Scottish influence on the young continent never left. Armed with an inimitable range of historical knowledge, Fry charts the exchange of ideas and values between Scotland and America that led to many of the greatest achievements in business, science, and the arts. Finally, he takes readers into the twentieth century, in which the Scots serve as the ideal example of a people that have embraced globalization without losing their sense of history, culture and national identity. Scottish Americans have been incomparable innovators in every branch of American society, and their fascinating story is brilliantly captured in this new book by one of Scotland's leading historians. How the Scots Made America is not only a must-read for all those with Scottish ancestry but for anyone interested in knowing the full story behind the roots of the American way of life.

Author : Alexander Murdoch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350307063

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Scotland and America, c.1600-c.1800 by Alexander Murdoch Pdf

While the literature relating to Scottish contact with America has grown significantly in recent years, the influence of America on Scotland and its early modern history has been neglected in favour of a preoccupation with Scottish influence on the formation of North American national identities. Alexander Murdoch's fascinating new study explores Scottish interactions with North America in a desire to open up fresh perspectives on the subject. Scotland and America, c.1600-c.1800 - Surveys the key centuries of economic, migratory and cultural exchange, including Canada and the Caribbean - Discusses Scottish participation in the Atlantic slave trade and the debate over its abolition - Considers the Scottish experience of British unionism with respect to developing American traditions of unionism in the U.S. and Canada Incorporating the latest research, this is essential reading for anyone interested in the dynamic relationship between Scotland and America during a key period in history.

Author : Allan I. Macinnes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521850797

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Union and Empire by Allan I. Macinnes Pdf

A major interpretation of the 1707 Act of Union and the making of the United Kingdom.

Author : B. Glass
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137427304

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The Scottish Nation at Empire's End by B. Glass Pdf

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.

Author : Matthew P. Dziennik
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300196726

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The Fatal Land by Matthew P. Dziennik Pdf

"Matthew P. Dziennik has written a compelling account of the Scottish Highland soldier and his service in Great Britain's American colonies during the French and Indian War and America's Revolutionary War. In the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century, the British state recruited more than twelve thousand soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland for the purpose of expanding and defending Britain's American empire, thereby transforming the most maligned region of the British Isles into a key sustainer of British imperialism. Dziennik's fascinating history corrects the mythologized image of the Highland soldier as a noble savage, a primitive if courageous relic of clanship, revealing instead how the Gaels used their military service to further their own interests in terms of material security and social status. Using both English and Gaelic sources, the author re-creates the experiences and the mindset of the Highland soldier in the New World and demonstrates in the process how a periphery of the British Isles became a center of the British Empire." -- [Tiré de la jaquette].

Author : Andrew Dewar Gibb
Publisher : London : A. Maclehose
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Explorers
ISBN : UCAL:$B756716

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Scottish Empire by Andrew Dewar Gibb Pdf

Author : Timothy J. White
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299297039

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Lessons from the Northern Ireland Peace Process by Timothy J. White Pdf

This book incorporates recent research that emphasizes the need for civil society and a grassroots approach to peacebuilding while taking into account a variety of perspectives, including neoconservatism and revolutionary analysis. The contributions, which include the reflections of those involved in the negotiation and implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, also provide policy prescriptions for modern conflicts.

Author : James Webb
Publisher : Random House
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781907195891

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Born Fighting by James Webb Pdf

More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England's Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. When hundreds of thousands of Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, they brought with them not only long experience as rebels and outcasts but also unparalleled skills as frontiersmen and guerrilla fighters. Their cultural identity reflected acute individualism, dislike of aristocracy and a military tradition; and, over time, the Scots-Irish defined the attitudes and values of the military, of working-class America and even of the peculiarly populist form of American democracy itself. Born Fighting is the first book to chronicle the epic journey of this remarkable ethnic group and the profound but unrecognised role it has played in shaping the social, political and cultural landscape of America from its beginnings through to the present day.