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基本説明
This book is the first full-length study of the role of the Scots from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.
Full Description
The description of South Africa as a 'rainbow nation' has always been taken to embrace the black, brown and white peoples who constitute its population. But each of these groups can be sub-divided and in the white case, the Scots have made one of the most distinctive contributions to the country's history. The Scots, as in North America and Australasia, constituted an important element in the patterns of White settlement. They were already present in the area of Dutch East India Company rule and, after the first British occupation of the Cape in 1795, their numbers rose dramatically. They were exceptionally active in such areas as exploration, botanical and scientific endeavour, military campaigns, the emergence of Christian missions, Western education, intellectual institutions, the professions as well as enterprise and technical developments, business, commerce and journalism. This book is the first full-length study of their role from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. It highlights the interaction of Scots with African peoples, the manner in which missions and schools were credited with producing 'Black Scotsmen' and the ways in which they pursued many distinctive policies. It also deals with the inter weaving of issues of gender, class and race as well as with the means by which Scots clung to their ethnicity through founding various social and cultural societies. This book offers a major contribution to both Scottish and South African history and in the process illuminates a significant field of the Scottish Diaspora that has so far received little attention. -- .
Contents
CONTENTSAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Imperialism and IdentitiesScots and empireScottish identity, Scotland and southern Africa2. The Scots Presence at the CapeThe travelling ScotProminent Scots in the British OccupationsThe Moodie SettlementThe 1820 Settlement3. Radicals, Evangelicals, the Scottish Enlightenment and Cape Colonial AutocracyHow many Scots?Somerset and the 'Scotch Independents'Greig and the Dissemination of the PressReform and EmancipationFairbairn: commerce, finance and educationRepresentative GovernmentIntellectual and Scientific InstitutionsConclusion4. Scots Missions and the FrontierThe Military FrontierThe Missionary FrontierScots Missionaries: Politics, Land and WarMission Education: the Lovedale and Blythswood InstitutionsLovedale and Medical MissionAfrican MinistersScots Women on the FrontierNatal and the Gordon Memorial MissionConclusion5. Continuing Migration to Natal, Cape and TransvaalMigration to NatalByrne and other settlementsSuccess StoriesNe'er Do WellsWomen and entrepreneurshipWhite Population and Later SettlementsImmigration to the CapeNew ScotlandSouth Africa and the Migration Boom6. Professionals: the Church and EducationThe Church: Dutch ReformedThe Church: PresbyterianEducation: SchoolsHigher Education7. The Professionals: the Environment, Medicine, Business, and RadicalsScots and the EnvironmentMedicineBusinessRadicals8. Maintaining Scots IdentityCaledonian and other Scottish SocietiesThe South African ScotThe South African 'Scottish' Regiments Scotland and South African 'Scottishness'9. Conclusion -- .
