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Tuckwell, Birlinn Ltd.
Language
English
Pages
580

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Subjects

History, Scots, Colonies, Modern Civilization, Scottish influences, Scotland, Scotland, history, Scotland, foreign relations, Foreign relations

Places

Great Britain, Foreign countries, Commonwealth countries, History
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: PART ONE. A COMMERCIAL EMPIRE
1. The special friendship': Ireland
2. The key of the universe': Darien
3. Nobody wishes us well': The European Context
4. The true interest of a country': The Scottish Debate
5. A nation no longer': America
6. The greater barbarians': The West Indies
7. Compassion for fallen greatness': India
8. In true highland style': Canada
9. Thriving in the produce of flocks': Australia
10. Occasional scenes of the broadest farce': The Mediterranean
PART TWO. A CHRISTIAN EMPIRE
11. Scattering the seeds of civilisation': South Africa
12. Commerce and Christianity': David Livingstone
13. The voice of Scotland': Central Africa
14. An incipient civilisation': West Africa
15. Into the Stygian pool': India, the Religious Mission
16. I have sinned': India, the Secular Mission
17. We are too Scotch': Canada
18. Bothwell Brig faces': Australasia
19. The true art of the missionary': Oceania
20. Fitted to pollute public sentiment': The Scottish Debate
PART THREE. A CONTESTED EMPIRE
21. Using the safe and small': Imperial Economics
22. Les peuples de second rang': The European Context
23. The most proper persons for this country': Canada
24. Our principal reliance is on opium': China
25. A huge military despotism': India
26. Thank God we are all Scots here': East Africa
27. A kind of celestial Scotland': South Africa
28. A movement among the Celtic elements': Imperial Politics
PART FOUR. A CRUMBLING EMPIRE
29. A mother state': Imperial Politics
30. A national home for the Jewish people': Palestine
31. On the look out for some stigma': African Colonisation
32. Someone must speak for them': African Decolonisation
33. The oracle is dumb': India
34. As loyal as the Highlanders': China
35. Lying in the centre of trade': Malaysia
36. A kingdom of the mind': Canada
37. Traitors to Scotland': Imperial Economics
38. Not solely Scottish': The End of Empire
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 521-560) and index.

Published in
Phantassie, East Lothian [Scotland], Edinburgh

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
909/.049163
Library of Congress
DA774.5 .F79 2001, DA774.5.F79 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxvi, 580 p., [64] p. of plates :
Number of pages
580

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4018202M
ISBN 10
186232185X
LCCN
2001391522
OCLC/WorldCat
45682737, 59538644

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