The description of South Africa as a "rainbow nation" has always been taken to embrace the black, brown and white peoples who constitute its population. But each of these groups can be sub-divided and in the white case, the Scots have made one of the most distinctive contributions to the country's history. This book is the first full-length study of their role from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries and it offers a major contribution to both Scottish and South African history, in the process illuminating a significant field of the Scottish Diaspora that has so far received little attention.
CONTENTS
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction: Imperialism and Identities
• Scots and empire
• Scottish identity, Scotland and southern Africa
• The Scots Presence at the Cape
• The traveling Scot
• Prominent Scots in the British Occupations
• The Moodie Settlement
• The 1820 Settlement
• Radicals, Evangelicals, the Scottish Enlightenment and Cape Colonial Autocracy
• How many Scots?
• Somerset and the 'Scotch Independents'
• Greig and the Dissemination of the Press
• Reform and Emancipation
• Fairbairn: commerce, finance and education
• Representative Government
• Intellectual and Scientific Institutions
• Conclusion
• Scots Missions and the Frontier
• The Military Frontier
• The Missionary Frontier
• Scots Missionaries: Politics, Land and War
• Mission Education: the Lovedale and Blythswood Institutions
• Lovedale and Medical Mission
• African Ministers
• Scots Women on the Frontier
• Natal and the Gordon Memorial Mission
• Conclusion
• Continuing Migration to Natal, Cape and Transvaal
• Migration to Natal
• Byrne and other settlements
• Success Stories
• Ne'er Do Wells
• Women and entrepreneurship
• White Population and Later Settlements
• Immigration to the Cape
• New Scotland
• South Africa and the Migration Boom
• Professionals: the Church and Education
• The Church: Dutch Reformed
• The Church: Presbyterian
• Education: Schools
• Higher Education
• The Professionals: the Environment, Medicine, Business, and Radicals
• Scots and the Environment
• Medicine
• Business
• Radicals
• Maintaining Scots Identity
• Caledonian and other Scottish Societies
• The South African Scot
• The South African "Scottish" Regiments
• Scotland and South African "Scottishness"
• Conclusion
Overview
The description of South Africa as a "rainbow nation" has always been taken to embrace the black, brown and white peoples who constitute its population. But each of these groups can be sub-divided and in the white case, the Scots have made one of the most distinctive contributions to the country's history. This book is the first full-length study of their role from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries and it offers a major contribution to both Scottish and South African history, in the process illuminating a ...