By T. M. Devine, Angela McCarthy
This pioneering quantity specializes in the size, territorial trajectories, effect, fiscal relationships, identification and nature of the Scottish-Asia connection from the past due 17th century to the current. it's specifically interested in deciding upon no matter if there has been a particular Scottish adventure and if that is so, what impression it had at the East. Did Scots carry varied abilities to Asia and the way a ways did their backgrounds organize them in several methods? have been their networks unique in comparison to different ethnicities? What was once the pull of Asia for them? Did they honestly punch above their weight as a few contemporaries proposal, or used to be that simply exaggerated rhetoric? If there has been a particular ‘Scottish influence’ how is that to be defined?
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COLONISING THE EAST INDIA COMPANY BEFORE 1800 The historic failure in the 1690s of the bold initiative at Darien undertaken by the Company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies is often seen as the death knell of Scottish colonial ambitions. When considered in the long run, however, the doomed venture can perhaps more accurately be seen as a premature and false dawn in the history of Scottish enterprise in the East rather than in any sense the end of the story. The failure to establish the planned entrepôt in Darien on the Isthmus of Panama in order to link the commerce of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans had many complex causes.
Hastings’ policy was not based on Scotophilia but on pragmatism and expediency. M. DEVINE came to rely on the Scottish stockholders in the Company to maintain his position. They were never a majority but they proved their loyalty on several occasions. In return, Hastings was prepared to favour those among their kin and associates who showed potential. 12 This patronage from above soon created a multiplier effect of chain migrations. When one family member achieved a place, so he often became the principal source of a new network based on an extended kindred of brothers, nephews, cousins and associates.
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