Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic world, 1750-1820:

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, ‘ac...

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1. Verfasser: Hamilton, Douglas (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Manchester ; New York Manchester University Press 2005
Schriftenreihe:Studies in imperialism
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Zusammenfassung: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 book, therefore, will be of interest to scholars and students of Scottish, British, Caribbean, imperial and Atlantic history
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 249 Seiten) Karten
ISBN:9781847793034
9781847796332
9781781702321
DOI:10.7765/9781847793034

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