Author : Thomas Martin Devine
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 31,20 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780140296877
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 : Thomas Martin Devine
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,75 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780718193195
[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 : Smithsonian Books (DC)
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 14,60 MB
Release : 2004-05-17
Category : History
ISBN :
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 : Professor M Daunton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1000144542
Much has been written about the forging of a British identity in the 17th and 18th centuries, from the multiple kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland. But the process also ran across the Irish sea and was played out in North America and the Caribbean. In the process, the indigenous peoples of North America, the Caribbean, the Cape, Australia and New Zealand were forced to redefine their identities. This text integrates the history of these areas with British and imperial history. With contributions from both sides of the Atlantic, each chapter deals with a different aspect of British encounters with indigenous peoples in Colonial America and includes, for example, sections on "Native Americans and Early Modern Concepts of Race" and "Hunting and the Politics of Masculinity in Cherokee treaty-making, 1763-1775". This book should be of particular interest to postgraduate students of Colonial American history and early modern British history.
Author : Oscar Recio Morales
Publisher : Four Courts Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,29 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 9781846821837
The Irish, contends the author, made a remarkable contribution to the Spanish empire during the 17th and early 18th centuries. Morales covers the complexity of Irish migration to the Spanish empire and explores the role that the Irish played in the army, commerce, medicine, literary life and 18th-century Spanish Enlightenment.
Author : T. M. Devine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 13,59 MB
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0199563691
A landmark study which reconsiders in fresh and illuminating ways the classic themes of the nation's history since the sixteenth century, as well as a number of new topics which are only now receiving detailed attention. Places the Scottish experience firmly in an international historical experience.
Author : John M. MacKenzie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,79 MB
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0199573247
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 : 887 pages
File Size : 28,48 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0718193202
'The Scottish Nation, 1700-2007' examines the social, political, religious and economic factors that have shaped modern Scotland. Devine places Scotland firmly within an international context and provides a key focus for the ongoing debate regarding Scotland's future.
Author : Michael Fry
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1788854322
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 : H. W. Crocker, III
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 32,59 MB
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1596986298
Presents an irreverant and humorous look at the four-hundred-year history of the British empire.
