The Scottish experience in Asia, c.1700 to the present : settlers and sojourners /: settlers and sojourners. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: T.M. Devine, Angela McCarthy, editors.
• Editors: Devine, T. M (Thomas Martin); McCarthy, Angela, 1971-
• Contents: Introduction: The Scottish Experience in Asia, c.1700 to the Present: Settlers and Sojourners by T. M. Devine and Angela McCarthy -- A Scottish Empire of Enterprise in the East, c.1695-1914 by T. M. Devine -- Scottish Orientalists, Administrators and Missions: A Distinctive Scottish Approach to Asia? by John M. MacKenzie -- Scottish Agency Houses in south-east Asia, c.1760-c.1813 by George McGilvary -- Scots and the Imposition of Improvement in South India by Joanna Frew -- Death or a Pension: Scottish Fortunes at the End of the East India Company c.1800-1857 by Ellen Filor -- Governor J.A. Stewart Mackenzie and the Making of Ceylon by Patrick Peebles -- Scots and the Coffee Industry in Nineteenth Century Ceylon by T.J. Barron -- Ceylon: A Scottish Colony? by Angela McCarthy -- Addicting the Dragon? Jardine, Matheson & Co. in the China Opium Trade by T.M. Devine -- The Shanghai Scottish: Scottish, Imperial and Local Identities in the Scottish Company of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps by Isabella Jackson -- Ethnic Associationalism and Networking among the Scots in Asia: A Longitudinal Comparison, c. l870 to the Present by Tanja Bueltmann -- The Right Kind of Migrants: Scottish Expatriates in Hong Kong since 1950 and the Promotion of Human Capital by Iain Watson.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.8916/3; History; Scots -- Asia -- History; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies; International relations; Scots; History -- Europe -- Great Britain; History -- Social History; History -- General; British & Irish history; Social & cultural history; Colonialism & imperialism; Social history; Imperialism; History -- Asia -- General; Asian history; Scotland -- Relations -- Asia; Asia -- Relations -- Scotland; Asia; Scotland; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319430744; 3319430742
• Related ISBNs: 3319430734; 9783319430737
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