Book of Donmon Teith

Against the background of a distinctive Lowland society transformed by commercializing and Anglicizing influences in the years after Scotland's union with Engla

Before 1650, only a few hundred Scots had trickled into the American colonies, but by the early 1770s the number had risen to 10,000 per year. A conservative es

This is the first book wholly devoted to assessing the array of links between Scotland and the Caribbean in the later eighteenth century. It uses a wide range o

While the literature relating to Scottish contact with America has grown significantly in recent years, the influence of America on Scotland and its early moder

Enmeshed in the exploitative world of racial slavery, overseers were central figures in the management of early American plantation enterprises. All too frequen