Scottish Empire

Author : Michael Fry
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : S. Karly Kehoe
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487541088

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Empire and Emancipation by S. Karly Kehoe Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas Martin Devine
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : John M. MacKenzie,T. M. Devine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : B. Glass
Publisher : Springer
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Andrew Dewar Gibb
Publisher : London : A. Maclehose
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Explorers
ISBN : UCAL:$B756716

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Scottish Empire by Andrew Dewar Gibb Pdf

Author : Valerie Wallace
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319704678

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Scottish Presbyterianism and Settler Colonial Politics by Valerie Wallace Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas Martin Devine
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : Kenneth McNeil
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814210475

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Scotland, Britain, Empire by Kenneth McNeil Pdf

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.

Author : Carla Sassi
Publisher : The Saltire Society
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0854110828

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Why Scottish Literature Matters by Carla Sassi Pdf

This is the fourth book in a Saltire series examining the significance of Scottish history, philosophy and the Scots language. Here, the Distinguished Italian academic Carla Sassi examines Scotland's literature from the earliest times to the late 20th century and offers new and fascinating insights into the nature of nationhood and identity, and the way in which these are reflected in, and the inspiration for, literary output at various periods. The major historical influences are covered including relations with England, religious division, enlightenment philosophy and the Union of 1707, but Professor Sassi also examines Scotland's role in the British imperial adventure and the impact on literature of the coloniser / colonised experience. She makes a special study of the contribution of women writers and the writers of the 20th century 'Renaissance' and concludes with speculation on the future of 'Scottish' literature in a post-modern Scotland exposed to global cultural influences and living in the new political world heralded by the restoration of the Holyrood Parliament. Carla Sassi is Associate Professor of English literature at the University of Verona. She specialises in Sc

Author : Esther Breitenbach
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748683413

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Scottish Women by Esther Breitenbach Pdf

Drawing on a wide range of source materials from across Scotland, this sourcebook provides new insights into women's attitudes to the society in which they lived, and how they negotiated their identities within private and public life.

Author : Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society,John Carter Brown Library
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Jock Gallagher
Publisher : Whittles
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1849951020

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Scotland's Global Empire by Jock Gallagher Pdf

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.

Author : John M. MacKenzie,T. M. Devine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192513533

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

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.

Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748628629

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

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.