The Scottish Experience In Asia, C.1700 To The Present: Settlers And Sojourners (cambridge Imperial And Post-colonial Studies Series)
by T. M. Devine /
2016 / English / PDF
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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?
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?