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Book SynopsisThis volume examines Scotland's experience of and reaction to European expansion between c. 1600-1800. Although Scotland lacked an independent empire in the seventeenth century, it gained unfettered access to the global empire of England after 1707. The volume argues that, beneath this seemingly stark discontinuity, there lay considerable continuity. Using a series of case studies on Scottish governors serving in the empires of Denmark-Norway, Weden, and their eighteenth century Russian and British equivalents, it highlights the previously underestimated chronological and geographic extent of Scotland's engagement in European expansion. It concludes that a blend of informal networks of kinship and local association complemented the official status of Scottish governors and produced a relatively distinctive and effective strategy for participating in imperialism.
Trade Review"...valuable collection...a radical conception of what union actually meant for Scottish participation in the empire." Gordon DesBrisay, Sixteenth Century Journal, 2005. "All too many collections of essays are disjointed and of variable quality. It is therefore a particular pleasure to note that this volume offers high-quality work organized around the coherent theme outlined in the title. The editors between them have already made a major contribution to early-modern Scottish history and this collection should be seen as building on their works." Jeremy Black, H-Net Reviews, 2004.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations List of Contributors Foreword / John M. MacKenzie Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Scotsmen on the Danish-Norwegian Frontiers c. 1580-1680 / Steve Murdoch… 1 2 At the Edge of Civilisation: John Cunningham, Lensmann of Finnmark, 1619-51 / Rune Hagen … 29 3 A Century of Scottish Governorship in the Swedish Empire, 1574-1700 / Alexia Grosjean … 53 4 An Irish Governor of Scotland: Lord Broghill, 1655-1656 / Patrick Little … 79 5 Field-Marshal James Keith: Governor of the Ukraine and Finland, 1740-1743 / Atina L. K. Nihtinen … 99 6 Gabriel Johnston and the Portability of Patronage in the Eighteenth-Century North Atlantic World / Tim Hanson … 119 7 James Glen and the Indians / Alex Murdoch … 141 8 Governor Robert Dinwiddie and the Virginia Frontier, 1751-57 / Robert Cain … 161 9 Robert Melville and the Frontiers of Empire in the British West Indies, 1763-1771 / Douglas Hamilton … 181 10 Fashioning a 'British' Empire: Sir Archibald Campbell of Inverneil and Madras, 1785-9 / Andrew Mackillop … 205 Index … 233
