Douglas Hamilton 
Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic world, 1750–1820 [EPUB ebook] 

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This is the first book wholly devoted to assessing the array of links between Scotland and the Caribbean in the later eighteenth century. It uses a wide range of archival sources to paint a detailed picture of the lives of thousands of Scots who sought fortunes and opportunities, as Burns wrote, ‘across th’ Atlantic roar’. It outlines the range of their occupations as planters, merchants, slave owners, doctors, overseers, and politicians, and shows how Caribbean connections affected Scottish society during the period of ‘improvement’. The book highlights the Scots’ reinvention of the system of clanship to structure their social relations in the empire and finds that involvement in the Caribbean also bound Scots and English together in a shared Atlantic imperial enterprise and played a key role in the emergence of the British nation and the Atlantic World.

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Table des matières

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Maps
Introduction
1. Scotland in the eighteenth century
2. The eighteenth-century West Indies
3. Scots on the plantations
4. Mercantile connections
5. Scots doctors in the West Indies
6. Scots in West Indian politics
7. Scots, the Caribbean and British politics
8. Repatriation from the West Indies
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

A propos de l’auteur

Douglas Hamilton is a Lecturer in History at the University of Hull

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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 264 ● ISBN 9781847796332 ● Taille du fichier 2.5 MB ● Maison d’édition Manchester University Press ● Lieu Manchester ● Pays GB ● Publié 2013 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 6820558 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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