Jacobitism, Enlightenment and Empire, 1680-1820

by Douglas J Hamilton

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032923215
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/14/2024
Series:	Political and Popular Culture in the Early Modern Period
Pages:	294
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Allan I. Macinnes, Douglas J. Hamilton

Table of Contents

Introduction: Identity, Mobility and Competing Patriotisms, Allan I. Macinnes, Douglas J. Hamilton; Chapter 1 Jamie the Soldier and the Jacobite Military Threat, 1706–27, Daniel Szechi; Chapter 2 Simply a Jacobite Heroine? The Life Experience of Margaret Lady Nairne (1673–1747), Nicola Cowmeadow; Chapter 3 Missionaries or Soldiers for the Jacobite Cause? The Conflict of Loyalties for Scottish Catholic Clergy, Thomas McInally; Chapter 4 English Liturgy and Scottish Identity: The Case of James Greenshields, Jeffrey Stephen; Chapter 5 ‘Let Him be an Englishman’: Irish and Scottish Clergy in the Caribbean Church of England, 1610–1720, Sarah Barber; Chapter 6 Scotland, the Dutch Republic and the Union: Commerce and Cosmopolitanism, Esther Mijers; Chapter 7 Clearing the Smokescreen of Early Scottish Mercantile Identity: From Leeward Sugar Plantations to Scottish Country Estates C. 1680–1730, Stuart M. Nisbet; Chapter 8 Union, Empire and Global Adventuring with a Jacobite Twist, 1707–53, Allan I. Macinnes; Chapter 9 John Drummond of Quarrel: East India Patronage and Jacobite Assimilation, 1720–80, George K. McGilvary; Chapter 10 William Playfair (1759–1823), Scottish Enlightenment from Below?, Jean-François Dunyach; Chapter 11 The Visionary Voyages of Robert Burns, Liam McIlvanney; Chapter 12 ‘Defending the Colonies Against Malicious Attacks of Philanthropy’: Scottish Campaigns Against the Abolitions of the Slave Trade and Slavery, Douglas J. Hamilton;