Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750–1820

Douglas Hamilton author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Published:1st Sep '10

Should be back in stock very soon

Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750–1820 cover

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.

There is no comparable study and this book would find a welcome place on the reading lists of graduate students and historians of the Atlantic world.' -- .

ISBN: 9780719071836

Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm

Weight: 381g

264 pages