num_pages: 512
description: A dazzling account of Scotland's role in the world by Scotland's bestselling historian. The Scots had an enormous impact on the global development of the British Empire as emigrants, soldiers, merchants and colonial administrators. Scotland's Empire provides a comprehensive examination of their crucial role during the formative era of the long eighteenth century. The book ranges from the Americas to Australia and from the Caribbean islands to India. It explores in depth many key themes including the slave trade, the Scots on the colonial frontier, Highland soldiers, the saga of the Ulster Scots, the effect of the Scottish Enlightenment and the connection between empire and the economic revolution in Scotland itself.
language: English
title: Scotland's Empire, 1600 - 1815
titlecomplete: Scotland's Empire, 1600 - 1815
characters: David Stewart of Garth, Louis XIV of France, James II of England and VII of Scotland, Oliver Cromwell, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Robert Burns, Samuel Johnson, Horace Walpole, James Madison, William III of England and II of Scotland, Thomas Reid, James VI and I, Lachlan Macquarie, Sir William Paterson, John Witherspoon, Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, Alexander Spiers, Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, Adam Smith, philosopher
genres: Nonfiction, History, British Literature, Scotland
ratings_count: 91
places: Scotland, British Empire
publisher: Penguin Books