Military Governors and Imperial Frontiers c. 1600-1800
A Study of Scotland and Empires
Biographical note
Andrew Mackillop, Ph.D. (1969) in Scottish History, University of Glasgow, is a Lecturer in History at the University of Aberdeen. He recently published the monograph More Fruitful than the Soil: Army, Empire and the Scottish Highlands, 1715-1815 (East Linton, 2000) and is co-editor of the volume Fighting for Identity: Scottish Military Experience, c. 1550-1900 (Brill, 2002).
Steve Murdoch, Ph.D. (1998) in British Scandinavian History, University of Aberdeen, lectures in Scottish History at the University of St Andrews. He recently published the monography Britain, Denmark-Norway and the House of Stuart 1603-1660: A Diplomatic and Military Analysis (East Linton, 2000) and edited Scotland and the Thirty Years War 1618-1648 (Brill, 2001). He is also co-editor of the volume Fighting for Identity: Scottish Military Experience, c. 1550-1900 (Brill, 2002).
Steve Murdoch, Ph.D. (1998) in British Scandinavian History, University of Aberdeen, lectures in Scottish History at the University of St Andrews. He recently published the monography Britain, Denmark-Norway and the House of Stuart 1603-1660: A Diplomatic and Military Analysis (East Linton, 2000) and edited Scotland and the Thirty Years War 1618-1648 (Brill, 2001). He is also co-editor of the volume Fighting for Identity: Scottish Military Experience, c. 1550-1900 (Brill, 2002).
Readership
All those interested in Scottish history, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian and Irsh history, as well as British Imperial history.
Reviews
"...valuable collection...a radical conception of what union actually meant for Scottish participation in the empire."
Gordon DesBrisay, Sixteenth Century Journal, 2005.
"All too many collections of essays are disjointed and of variable quality. It is therefore a particular pleasure to note that this volume offers high-quality work organized around the coherent theme outlined in the title. The editors between them have already made a major contribution to early-modern Scottish history and this collection should be seen as building on their works."
Jeremy Black, H-Net Reviews, 2004.
Gordon DesBrisay, Sixteenth Century Journal, 2005.
"All too many collections of essays are disjointed and of variable quality. It is therefore a particular pleasure to note that this volume offers high-quality work organized around the coherent theme outlined in the title. The editors between them have already made a major contribution to early-modern Scottish history and this collection should be seen as building on their works."
Jeremy Black, H-Net Reviews, 2004.
Table of contents
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Foreword / John M. MacKenzie
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Scotsmen on the Danish-Norwegian Frontiers c. 1580-1680 / Steve Murdoch… 1
2 At the Edge of Civilisation: John Cunningham, Lensmann of Finnmark, 1619-51 / Rune Hagen … 29
3 A Century of Scottish Governorship in the Swedish Empire, 1574-1700 / Alexia Grosjean … 53
4 An Irish Governor of Scotland: Lord Broghill, 1655-1656 / Patrick Little … 79
5 Field-Marshal James Keith: Governor of the Ukraine and Finland, 1740-1743 / Atina L. K. Nihtinen … 99
6 Gabriel Johnston and the Portability of Patronage in the Eighteenth-Century North Atlantic World / Tim Hanson … 119
7 James Glen and the Indians / Alex Murdoch … 141
8 Governor Robert Dinwiddie and the Virginia Frontier, 1751-57 / Robert Cain … 161
9 Robert Melville and the Frontiers of Empire in the British West Indies, 1763-1771 / Douglas Hamilton … 181
10 Fashioning a 'British' Empire: Sir Archibald Campbell of Inverneil and Madras, 1785-9 / Andrew Mackillop … 205
Index … 233
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Foreword / John M. MacKenzie
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Scotsmen on the Danish-Norwegian Frontiers c. 1580-1680 / Steve Murdoch… 1
2 At the Edge of Civilisation: John Cunningham, Lensmann of Finnmark, 1619-51 / Rune Hagen … 29
3 A Century of Scottish Governorship in the Swedish Empire, 1574-1700 / Alexia Grosjean … 53
4 An Irish Governor of Scotland: Lord Broghill, 1655-1656 / Patrick Little … 79
5 Field-Marshal James Keith: Governor of the Ukraine and Finland, 1740-1743 / Atina L. K. Nihtinen … 99
6 Gabriel Johnston and the Portability of Patronage in the Eighteenth-Century North Atlantic World / Tim Hanson … 119
7 James Glen and the Indians / Alex Murdoch … 141
8 Governor Robert Dinwiddie and the Virginia Frontier, 1751-57 / Robert Cain … 161
9 Robert Melville and the Frontiers of Empire in the British West Indies, 1763-1771 / Douglas Hamilton … 181
10 Fashioning a 'British' Empire: Sir Archibald Campbell of Inverneil and Madras, 1785-9 / Andrew Mackillop … 205
Index … 233
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