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Military Governors and Imperial Frontiers C. 1600-1800: A Study of Scotland and Empires (History of Warfare, V. 17)

By Andrew MacKillop , Steve Murdoch

Book information

Year
2003
ISBN
9004129707, 9789004129702, 9781423711889
LCC
DA767 .M55 2003
Open Library ID
OL22539347M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3483844 bytes)
Pages
312\310
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This 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.

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