num_pages: 496
description: Scotland's influence was crucial for the worldwide success of Britain's overseas empire. As emigrants, soldiers, tobacco lords, merchants, and colonial administrators, Scots were involved in nearly every aspect of running and financing Britain's colonies in America, Australia, and India. T.M. Devine, Scotland's leading historian, draws on a wealth of new material to provide a comprehensive examination of Scotland's multifaceted role in colonization. He deftly portrays the key contributions by Scots to the development of the Americas, from political ideas to business. In the first of a two-volume set, Scotland's Empire combines detailed scholarship with a compelling narrative history, setting the Scots' story against the rise of the British Empire, the course of American history, and the changes in world history.
language: English
title: Scotland's Empire and the Shaping of the Americas, 1600-1815
titlecomplete: Scotland's Empire and the Shaping of the Americas, 1600-1815
characters: John Witherspoon, James VI and I, Horace Walpole, Adam Smith, philosopher, Robert Burns, James Madison, Oliver Cromwell, David Stewart of Garth, Thomas Reid, James II of England and VII of Scotland, Alexander Spiers, Lachlan Macquarie, Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, Samuel Johnson, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Sir William Paterson, Louis XIV of France, Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, William III of England and II of Scotland
genres: Scotland, British Literature, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 91
places: Scotland, British Empire
publisher: Smithsonian Books