Military Governors and Imperial Frontiers C. 1600-1800

A Study of Scotland and Empires
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-04-12970-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 602 g

Reihe: History of Warfare

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mackillop, Andrew

Murdoch, Steve

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Foreword / John M. MacKenzie
Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Scotsmen on the Danish-Norwegian Frontiers c. 1580-1680 / Steve Murdoch… 1
2 At the Edge of Civilisation: John Cunningham, Lensmann of Finnmark, 1619-51 / Rune Hagen … 29
3 A Century of Scottish Governorship in the Swedish Empire, 1574-1700 / Alexia Grosjean … 53
4 An Irish Governor of Scotland: Lord Broghill, 1655-1656 / Patrick Little … 79
5 Field-Marshal James Keith: Governor of the Ukraine and Finland, 1740-1743 / Atina L. K. Nihtinen … 99
6 Gabriel Johnston and the Portability of Patronage in the Eighteenth-Century North Atlantic World / Tim Hanson … 119
7 James Glen and the Indians / Alex Murdoch … 141
8 Governor Robert Dinwiddie and the Virginia Frontier, 1751-57 / Robert Cain … 161
9 Robert Melville and the Frontiers of Empire in the British West Indies, 1763-1771 / Douglas Hamilton … 181
10 Fashioning a 'British' Empire: Sir Archibald Campbell of Inverneil and Madras, 1785-9 / Andrew Mackillop … 205

Index … 233

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Mackillop, Ph.D. (1969) in Scottish History, University of Glasgow, is a Lecturer in History at the University of Aberdeen. He recently published the monograph More Fruitful than the Soil: Army, Empire and the Scottish Highlands, 1715-1815 (East Linton, 2000) and is co-editor of the volume Fighting for Identity: Scottish Military Experience, c. 1550-1900 (Brill, 2002).

Steve Murdoch, Ph.D. (1998) in British Scandinavian History, University of Aberdeen, lectures in Scottish History at the University of St Andrews. He recently published the monography Britain, Denmark-Norway and the House of Stuart 1603-1660: A Diplomatic and Military Analysis (East Linton, 2000) and edited Scotland and the Thirty Years War 1618-1648 (Brill, 2001). He is also co-editor of the volume Fighting for Identity: Scottish Military Experience, c. 1550-1900 (Brill, 2002).