The Scottish Empire
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The Scottish Empire

  1. 400 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

The Scottish Empire

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
John Donald
Year
2002
eBook ISBN
9781788854320
Topic
Geschichte
Subtopic
Britische Geschichte

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Illustrations
  8. Maps
  9. Chronology
  10. Introduction
  11. PART ONE. A COMMERCIAL EMPIRE
  12. 1. ‘The special friendship’: Ireland
  13. 2. ‘The key of the universe’: Darien
  14. 3. ‘Nobody wishes us well’: The European Context
  15. 4. ‘The true interest of a country’: The Scottish Debate
  16. 5. ‘A nation no longer’: America
  17. 6. ‘The greater barbarians’: The West Indies
  18. 7. ‘Compassion for fallen greatness’: India
  19. 8. ‘In true highland style’: Canada
  20. 9. ‘Thriving in the produce of flocks’: Australia
  21. 10. ‘Occasional scenes of the broadest farce’: The Mediterranean
  22. PART TWO. A CHRISTIAN EMPIRE
  23. 11. ‘Scattering the seeds of civilisation’: South Africa
  24. 12. ‘Commerce and Christianity’: David Livingstone
  25. 13. ‘The voice of Scotland’: Central Africa
  26. 14. ‘An incipient civilisation’: West Africa
  27. 15. ‘Into the Stygian pool’: India, the Religious Mission
  28. 16. ‘I have sinned’: India, the Secular Mission
  29. 17. ‘We are too Scotch’: Canada
  30. 18. ‘Bothwell Brig faces’: Australasia
  31. 19. ‘The true art of the missionary’: Oceania
  32. 20. ‘Fitted to pollute public sentiment’: The Scottish Debate
  33. PART THREE. A CONTESTED EMPIRE
  34. 21. ‘Using the safe and small’: Imperial Economics
  35. 22. ‘Les peuples de second rang’: The European Context
  36. 23. ‘The most proper persons for this country’: Canada
  37. 24. ‘Our principal reliance is on opium’: China
  38. 25. ‘A huge military despotism’: India
  39. 26. ‘Thank God we are all Scots here’: East Africa
  40. 27. ‘A kind of celestial Scotland’: South Africa
  41. 28. ‘A movement among the Celtic elements’: Imperial Politics
  42. PART FOUR. A CRUMBLING EMPIRE
  43. 29. ‘A mother state’: Imperial Politics
  44. 30. ‘A national home for the Jewish people’: Palestine
  45. 31. ‘On the look out for some stigma’: African Colonisation
  46. 32. ‘Someone must speak for them’: African Decolonisation
  47. 33. ‘The oracle is dumb’: India
  48. 34. ‘As loyal as the Highlanders’: China
  49. 35. ‘Lying in the centre of trade’: Malaysia
  50. 36. ‘A kingdom of the mind’: Canada
  51. 37. ‘Traitors to Scotland’: Imperial Economics
  52. 38. ‘Not solely Scottish’: The End of Empire
  53. Notes
  54. Bibliography
  55. Index