Nation and Province in the First British Empire: Scotland and the Americas, 1600-1800Bucknell University Press, 2001 - 292 من الصفحات For more than four decades, historians have devoted ever-increasing attention to the affinites that linked Scotland with the American colonies in the eighteenth century. This volume moves beyond earlier discussions in two ways. For one, the geographical coverage of the papers extends beyond the territories that became the United States to include what became Canada, The Carribean and even Africa. For another, the volume attends not only those areas in which Scotland was closely linked to the Americas, but also to those where it was not. |
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... colonies in the genera- tion before the American Revolution . Indeed , it is now apparent that the Scots played active and important roles in such diverse areas of early American life as religion , science , commerce , education , and ...
... colonies in the genera- tion before the American Revolution . Indeed , it is now apparent that the Scots played active and important roles in such diverse areas of early American life as religion , science , commerce , education , and ...
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... Colonies- America - History - Congresses . 8. United States - History - Colonial period , ca. 1600-1775 - Congresses . I. Landsman , Ned C. , 1951- II . Eighteenth - Century Scottish Studies Society . III . Series . E184.S3 N38 2001 ...
... Colonies- America - History - Congresses . 8. United States - History - Colonial period , ca. 1600-1775 - Congresses . I. Landsman , Ned C. , 1951- II . Eighteenth - Century Scottish Studies Society . III . Series . E184.S3 N38 2001 ...
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... colonies that became the United States . Most of the others were to discuss the northern provinces that became Canada . Despite extensive Scottish involvement in the Caribbean , research in that area proved to be much more lim- ited ...
... colonies that became the United States . Most of the others were to discuss the northern provinces that became Canada . Despite extensive Scottish involvement in the Caribbean , research in that area proved to be much more lim- ited ...
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... colonies . That the title now locates it not under the heading of American colonies but rather of the first British empire is an indication of some of the slippage that has oc- curred in recent years in the application of rigid national ...
... colonies . That the title now locates it not under the heading of American colonies but rather of the first British empire is an indication of some of the slippage that has oc- curred in recent years in the application of rigid national ...
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... colonies , the explanation in- voked most often for the proliferation of those connections.4 None of those studies has yet explained the overall volume of Scottish involvement with the Americas , nor precisely why Scots engaged as ...
... colonies , the explanation in- voked most often for the proliferation of those connections.4 None of those studies has yet explained the overall volume of Scottish involvement with the Americas , nor precisely why Scots engaged as ...
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The Rise and Fall of Houstoun and Co | 94 |
Emigration to British North America 17631815 | 127 |
The Meaning of Independence for Early NineteenthCentury Lowland Emigrants to Upper Canada | 151 |
Cultural Connections and Provincial Intellects | 181 |
The Scottish Literati and America 16801800 | 183 |
The New York City Presbyterian Church in the 1750s | 221 |
Scottish Medicine and Christian Enlightenment at the Pennsylvania Hospital 17751800 | 245 |
Samuel Millers A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century and Its Scottish Context | 265 |
Contributors | 280 |
Index | 282 |
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African Alexander American colonies Andrew Hook artisans Atlantic Bance Island Brief Retrospect Britain British North America Cambridge Caribbean Coast Company congregation culture David van Horne early economic Edinburgh eighteenth century empire England English evangelical factory Foreign Letter Book French fur trade Glasgow Grant Grenada Highland History House Houstoun and Co.'s Houstoun and Paterson Ibid imperial independence India intellectual Jamaica James Joseph Bellamy Journal land Landsman literati London Lord Lowland McDowall medicine ment merchants Miller nineteenth century Nisbet Nova Scotia partners Pennsylvania Hospital Philadelphia physicians plantations planters political Port Royal Presbyterian Presbyterian Church Princeton Reid Richard Oswald Robert Samuel Scotch Presbyterian Society Scotland and America Scots Scottish Emigration Scottish Enlightenment Scottish involvement settlement Sher ship Sierra Leone Slave Trade social sugar Synod T. C. Smout Thomas tion Tobacco Lords Tobago Turner and Paul University Press Upper Canada Vetch weavers West Indies Windward York
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الصفحة 162 - No glory I covet, no riches I want, Ambition is nothing to me ; The one thing I beg of kind heaven to grant, Is a mind independent and free.
الصفحة 232 - He is a gentleman of a mild, catholic disposition ; and being a man of piety, prudence, and zeal, confines himself entirely to the proper business of -his function. In the art of preaching he is one of the most distinguished clergymen in these parts. His discourses are methodical, sound, and pathetic ; in sentiment, and in point of diction, singularly ornamented. He delivers himself without notes, and yet with great ease and fluency of expression ; and performs every part of divine worship with a...
الصفحة 153 - The self-dependent lordlings stand alone, All claims that bind and sweeten life unknown ; Here by the bonds of nature feebly held...
الصفحة 116 - ... for enabling his majesty to direct the issue of exchequer bills, to a limited amount, for the purposes and in the manner therein mentioned.
الصفحة 61 - I can, at any rate, show that the experiments made with it at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century fully confirm the high encomium bestowed by Dioscorides upon his indicum.
الصفحة 56 - Emerson W. Baker, et al., eds., American Beginnings: Exploration, Culture, and Cartography in the Land ofNorumbega (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994), 287-315.
الصفحة 262 - Twenty-three Sermons upon the chief end of man, the Divine authority of the Sacred Scriptures, the Being and Attributes of God, and the doctrine of the Trinity, preached in Philadelphia, (a volume, 4to,) 1744.
الصفحة 55 - ... appease a fretful section of public opinion, it might also provide useful pawns for barter at the peace table. Although there were many misgivings it was eventually decided to support a major campaign in North America, and on July 13 Viscount Shannon was appointed General of all the land forces 'to be 1 'Journal of Colonel Nicholson at the Capture of Annapolis, 1710', Report and Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society for the year 1878, vol.