Ebook: Scotland and the British Empire
Author: T M Devine
- Series: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: OUP Oxford
- Edition: online
- Language: English
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The extraordinary influence of Scots in the British Empire has long been recognized. As administrators, settlers, temporary residents, professionals, plantation owners, and as military personnel, they were strikingly prominent in North America, the Caribbean, Australasia, South Africa, India, and colonies in South-East Asia and Africa. Throughout these regions they brought to bear distinctive Scottish experience as well as particular educational, economic, cultural, and religious influences. Moreover, the relationship between Scots and the British Empire had a profound effect upon many aspects of Scottish society.
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