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?
| ISBN: | 9783319430737 |
| Publication date: | 1st December 2016 |
| Author: | T. M. Devine |
| Publisher: | Springer International Publishing AG |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 324 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies |
| Genres: |
Asian history European history Social and cultural history Colonialism and imperialism |