The Scottish Experience in Asia, c.1700 to the Present
Settlers and Sojourners
Editors: Devine, T. M., McCarthy, Angela (Eds.)
Free Preview- First major study of the migration experiences of Scots throughout Asia, critically engaging with the concept of ethnicity and notions of Scottishness
- Encompasses diverse Asian destinations, including India, Ceylon, China, Singapore, and Hong Kong
- Explores key themes of trade, commerce, commodities, agriculture, cross-cultural contact, associational culture, identities, law, religion, and the emotions
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- About this book
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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?
- About the authors
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T. M. Devine is Sir William Fraser Professor Emeritus of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He was knighted in 2014 for ‘services to the study of Scottish history’.
Angela McCarthy is Professor of Scottish and Irish History at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the author and editor of several books on migration, including that of the Scots.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction: The Scottish Experience in Asia, c.1700 to the Present: Settlers and Sojourners
Pages 1-21
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A Scottish Empire of Enterprise in the East, c.1700–1914
Pages 23-49
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Scottish Orientalists, Administrators and Missions: A Distinctive Scots Approach to Asia?
Pages 51-73
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Scottish Agency Houses in South-East Asia, c.1760–c.1813
Pages 75-96
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Scots and the Imposition of Improvement in South India
Pages 97-118
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Scottish Experience in Asia, c.1700 to the Present
- Book Subtitle
- Settlers and Sojourners
- Editors
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- T. M. Devine
- Angela McCarthy
- Series Title
- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-43074-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-43074-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-43073-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-82731-5
- Series ISSN
- 2635-1633
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 324
- Number of Illustrations
- 13 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
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