Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies: Settlers and Sojourners

Devine, T. M.; McCarthy, Angela

This pioneering volume focuses on the scale, territorial trajectories, impact, economic relationships, identity and nature of the Scottish-Asia connection from the late seventeenth century to the present. It is especially concerned with identifying whether there was a distinctive Scottish experience and if so, what effect it had on the East. Did Scots bring different skills to Asia and how far did their backgrounds prepare them in different ways? Were their networks distinctive compared to other ethnicities? What was the pull of Asia for them? Did they really punch above their weight as some contemporaries thought, or was that just exaggerated rhetoric? If there was a distinctive ‘Scottish effect’ how is that to be explained? 

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2016-12-01

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783319430737

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-43074-4

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 324