Description
The essays in this collection examine religion, politics and commerce in Scotland during a time of crisis and turmoil. Contributors look at the effect of the Union on Scottish trade and commerce, the Scottish role in tobacco and sugar plantations, Robert Burns’s early poetry on his planned emigration to Jamaica and Scottish anti-abolitionists.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Identity, Mobility and Competing Patriotisms, Allan I. Macinnes, Douglas J. Hamilton; Chapter 1 Jamie the Soldier and the Jacobite Military Threat, 1706–27, Daniel Szechi; Chapter 2 Simply a Jacobite Heroine? The Life Experience of Margaret Lady Nairne (1673–1747), Nicola Cowmeadow; Chapter 3 Missionaries or Soldiers for the Jacobite Cause? The Conflict of Loyalties for Scottish Catholic Clergy, Thomas McInally; Chapter 4 English Liturgy and Scottish Identity: The Case of James Greenshields, Jeffrey Stephen; Chapter 5 ‘Let Him be an Englishman’: Irish and Scottish Clergy in the Caribbean Church of England, 1610–1720, Sarah Barber; Chapter 6 Scotland, the Dutch Republic and the Union: Commerce and Cosmopolitanism, Esther Mijers; Chapter 7 Clearing the Smokescreen of Early Scottish Mercantile Identity: From Leeward Sugar Plantations to Scottish Country Estates C. 1680–1730, Stuart M. Nisbet; Chapter 8 Union, Empire and Global Adventuring with a Jacobite Twist, 1707–53, Allan I. Macinnes; Chapter 9 John Drummond of Quarrel: East India Patronage and Jacobite Assimilation, 1720–80, George K. McGilvary; Chapter 10 William Playfair (1759–1823), Scottish Enlightenment from Below?, Jean-François Dunyach; Chapter 11 The Visionary Voyages of Robert Burns, Liam McIlvanney; Chapter 12 ‘Defending the Colonies Against Malicious Attacks of Philanthropy’: Scottish Campaigns Against the Abolitions of the Slave Trade and Slavery, Douglas J. Hamilton;
