The Scottish Experience in Asia, c.1700 to the Present, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Settlers and Sojourners
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series

This pioneering volume focuses on the scale, territorial trajectories, impact, economic relationships, identity and nature of the Scottish-Asia connection from the late seventeenth century to the present. It is especially concerned with identifying whether there was a distinctive Scottish experience and if so, what effect it had on the East. Did Scots bring different skills to Asia and how far did their backgrounds prepare them in different ways? Were their networks distinctive compared to other ethnicities? What was the pull of Asia for them? Did they really punch above their weight as some contemporaries thought, or was that just exaggerated rhetoric? If there was a distinctive ?Scottish effect? how is that to be explained? 

Introduction: The Scottish Experience in Asia, c.1700 to the Present: Settlers and Sojourners

T. M. Devine and Angela McCarthy                                 

A Scottish Empire of Enterprise in the East, c.1695-1914                      

T. M. Devine                                               

Scottish Orientalists, Administrators and Missions: A Distinctive Scottish Approach to Asia? 

John M. MacKenzie                                          

Scottish Agency Houses in south-east Asia, c.1760-c.1813                      

Scots and the Imposition of Improvement in South India                       

Joanna Frew

Death or a Pension: Scottish Fortunes at the End of the East India Company c.1800-1857

Ellen Filor                                          

Patrick Peebles                                      

Scots and the Coffee Industry in Nineteenth Century Ceylon              

T.J. Barron                                                      

Ceylon: A Scottish Colony?                                              

Angela McCarthy                                                  

Addicting the Dragon? Jardine, Matheson & Co. in the China Opium Trade 

T.M. Devine

The Shanghai Scottish: Scottish, Imperial and Local Identities in the Scottish Company of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps

Isabella Jackson

Ethnic Associationalism and Networking among the Scots in Asia: A Longitudinal Comparison, c. l870 to the Present

Tanja Bueltmann

The Right Kind of Migrants: Scottish Expatriates in Hong Kong since 1950 and the Promotion of Human Capital

T. M. Devine is Sir William Fraser Professor Emeritus of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He was knighted in 2014 for ‘services to the study of Scottish history’.

Angela McCarthy is Professor of Scottish and Irish History at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the author and editor of several books on migration, including that of the Scots.

First major study of the migration experiences of Scots throughout Asia, critically engaging with the concept of ethnicity and notions of Scottishness

Encompasses diverse Asian destinations, including India, Ceylon, China, Singapore, and Hong Kong

Explores key themes of trade, commerce, commodities, agriculture, cross-cultural contact, associational culture, identities, law, religion, and the emotions