Jacobitism, enlightenment and empire, 1680-1820
By: edited by Allan I. Macinnes and Douglas J. Hamilton
Series: Political and popular culture in the early modern period -- no. 8; Political and popular culture in the early modern period -- no. 8.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781315654140
Subjects: Intellectual life
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.
Notes: Originally published 2014 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Jamie the soldier and the Jacobite military threat, 1706-27 / Daniel Szechi; title: 2. Simply a Jacobite heroine? The life experience of Margaret, Lady Nairne (1673-1747) / Nicola Cowmeadow; title: 3. Missionaries or soldiers for the Jacobite cause? The conflict of loyalties for Scottish Catholic clergy / Thomas McInally; title: 4. English liturgy and Scottish identity : the case of James Greenshields / Jeffrey Stephen; title: 5. 'Let him be an Englishman' : Irish and Scottish clergy in the Caribbean Church of England, 1610-1720 / Sarah Barber; title: 6. Scotland, the Dutch Republic and the Union : commerce and cosmopolitanism / Esther Mijers; title: 7. Clearing the smokescreen of early Scottish mercantile identity : from Leeward Sugar Plantations to Scottish country estates c. 1680-1730 / Stuart M. Nisbet; title: 8. Union, empire and global adventuring with a Jacobite twist, 1707-53 / Allan I. Macinnes; title: 9. John Drummond of quarrel : East India patronage and Jacobite assimilation, 1720-80 / George K. McGilvary; title: 10. William Playfair (1759-1823), Scottish enlightenment from below? / Jean-Fran©ʹois Dunyach; title: 11. The visionary voyages of Robert Burns / Liam McIlvanney; title: 12. 'Defending the colonies against malicious attacks of philanthropy' : Scottish campaigns against the abolitions of the slave trade and slavery / Douglas J. Hamilton.