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Book SynopsisThis volume represents one of the first attempts to examine the connection between Scotland and the British empire throughout the entire twentieth century. -- .
Table of ContentsIntroduction – John M. MacKenzie and Bryan S. Glass
Part I: Migration, diaspora, identities
1. Initiatives, impediments and identities: Scottish emigration in the twentieth century – Marjory Harper
2. Applying the diasporic lens to identity and empire in twentieth-century Scotland – Graeme Morton
3. The strange case of jute – Gordon T. Stewart
4. Scots in early twentieth century British Columbia: class, race and gender – Michael E. Vance
Part II: Anti-colonialism, the military, decolonisation and nationalism
5. Anti-colonialism in twentieth-century Scotland – Stephen Howe
6. Beating retreat: the Scottish military tradition in decline – Stuart Allan
7. Newspapers and empire: bringing Africa to the Scottish public – Bryan S. Glass
8. David Livingstone, the Scottish cultural and political revival and the end of empire in Africa – John M. MacKenzie
9. Three referendums and a by-election: The shadow of empire in devolutionary politics – Jimmi Østergaard Nielsen and Stuart Ward
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