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Union, Empire and global adventuring with a Jacobite twist
No full textJacobite engagement with Empire post-1707
Introduction : identity, mobility and competing patriotisms
No full textIntroduction to collection of essays on Jacobitism, Enlightenment and Empir
Introduction : living with Jacobitism
No full textInterdisciplinary approaches to Jacobitism and anti-Jacobitism
Jacobitism, Enlightenment and Empire, 1680-1820
No full textThe essays in this collection examine religion, politics and commerce in Scotland during a time of identity crisis and turmoil. The Acts of Union in 1707 brought Scotland into the English networks of trading and dominion abroad. Jacobite antagonism towards the Union was balanced by an engagement with Empire, as seen in mercantile journals, family correspondence and contemporary accounts of contact with London, Amsterdam, the Baltic, the Caribbean and even as far as the Indian Ocean and the South China Seas. Contributors look at the political aspects of Episcopalian acceptance of the English liturgy, the effect of the Union on Scottish trade and commerce, the Scottish role in tobacco and sugar plantations, the role of the East India Company in helping Whig governments to assimilate Jacobites into the Hanoverian world, Robert Burns’s early poetry on his planned emigration to Jamaica and Scottish anti-abolitionists
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
'"Let him be an Englishman" : Irish and Scottish clergy in the Caribbean Church of England, 1610-1720'
No full textThis article reconstructs the personnel of the Anglican church in the greater Anglophone Caribbean, at a time when it was struggling to win the hearts and minds of settlers and slaves. It explores the above-average contribution made by non-English clergy, and concludes that they were welcomed as having greater commitment to the values of the Anglican Church and its mission in the foreign plantations
Travels to terra incognita: The Scottish Highlands and Hebrides in early modern travellers’ accounts c. 1600 to 1800
Full text linkIn the early modern period, Scotland and particularly the Highlands were among the least-known regions of Europe. Their image was overshadowed by myths and stereotypes that often dated back to the late Middle Ages. Chroniclers such as Hector Boece provided Scotland with a history that dated back to the times of ancient Egypt and Greece and created an image of it as a country where miracles actually took place. This thesis examines the stereotyping of Scotland and the Scots and its reflection in the late medieval and early modern travellers’ accounts. It analyses the opening up of the country to foreign visitors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Special emphasis is put on the discovery of the Highlands and Hebrides. This region kept its distinctive Gaelic tradition and identity until far into the nineteenth century. The accounts of foreign visitors offer a unique insight into Highland life and culture and cover all aspects ranging from the social organisation of the people in clans and their different agricultural techniques to their distinctive customs and manners. In the course of the eighteenth century the Highlands underwent radical economic and social changes. This thesis analyses the restructuring of the Highland economy and its impact on Highland society. It also deals with the attempts of the various public and private bodies to halt the economic decline of the region and to prevent the people from emigrating in large numbers to North America. Special consideration is paid to the promotion of the fishing industry and the development of kelp production on the western seaboard. The seventeenth- and eighteenth-century travellers’ accounts that are dealt with in this thesis are valuable sources on the social and economic history of the Highlands and Hebrides. They illustrate the discovery of this hitherto unknown region and reflect its painful integration into Great Britain. The appendix includes 120 short biographies of travellers and 115 maps showing their individual routes
"Let him be an Englishman" : Irish and Scottish ministers in the Caribbean Church of England, 1610-1730
No full textBased on extensive primary source research, this chapter reconstructs the ministry of nearly 400 people serving as ministers, schoolmasters and chaplains in the wider West Indies (Hatteras to Surinam) in the period 1610-1740. It notes the remarkably high proportion of those servants whose origins or theological education (in the case of several Huguenots) was from Scotland and Ireland, and asks why this was so and what impact it might have on the Englishness of the Church of England in the colonies. The chapter concludes that it was partially the reluctance of Englishmen to serve in the Caribbean (considered an ill/un paid, unrewarding posting), partly the opportunities for advancement for Irish and Scotsmen provided by the Empire that they would not receive in Britain (not affected by the Union), but also because the Irish and Scots (particularly the latter) were more highly regarded by the See of London, and considered more committed to a spiritual and pastoral ministry
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