Scotland and America, c. 1600-c.1800
By: Alexander Murdoch.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230516571; 9780230516496
Subjects: Scots -- North America -- History -- 17th century; Scots -- North America -- History -- 18th century; Scotland -- Relations -- North America; North America -- Relations -- Scotland
Description: "A fascinating survey of the key centuries of economic, migratory and cultural exchange between Scotland and North America, including Canada and the Caribbean. Murdoch explores Scottish interactions with North America in a desire to open up new perspectives on the subject"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Preface * Scotland and America in the Seventeenth Century * Darien and its Discontents * The Scottish West Indies * Tobacco and Trade * Slavery and Scotland * Scotland and Native Peoples; title: * Emigration in the Eighteenth Century * The Spiritual Connection * 'The Scottish Invention of the USA' * Notes * Bibliography * Index.