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

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 by T. M. Devine and Angela McCarthy.- A Scottish Empire of Enterprise in the East, c.1695-1914 by T. M. Devine.- Scottish Orientalists, Administrators and Missions: A Distinctive Scottish Approach to Asia? by John M. MacKenzie.- Scottish Agency Houses in south-east Asia, c.1760-c.1813 by George McGilvary.- Scots and the Imposition of Improvement in South India by Joanna Frew.- Death or a Pension: Scottish Fortunes at the End of the East India Company c.1800-1857 by Ellen Filor.- Governor J.A. Stewart Mackenzie and the Making of Ceylon by Patrick Peebles.- Scots and the Coffee Industry in Nineteenth Century Ceylon by T.J. Barron.- Ceylon: A Scottish Colony? by Angela McCarthy.- Addicting the Dragon? Jardine, Matheson & Co. in the China Opium Trade by