The Scottish Experience in Asia, c.1700 to the Present: Settlers and Sojourners (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series)

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? Front Matter....Pages i-xv Introduction: The Scottish Experience in Asia, c.1700 to the Present: Settlers and Sojourners....Pages 1-21 A Scottish Empire of Enterprise in the East, c.1700–1914....Pages 23-49 Scottish Orientalists, Administrators and Missions: A Distinctive Scots Approach to Asia?....Pages 51-73 Scottish Agency Houses in South-East Asia, c.1760–c.1813....Pages 75-96 Scots and the Imposition of Improvement in South India....Pages 97-118 Death or a Pension: Scottish Fortunes at the End of the East India Company, c.1800–57....Pages 119-142 Governor J.A. Stewart Mackenzie and the Making of Ceylon....Pages 143-162 Scots and the Coffee Industry in Nineteenth Century Ceylon....Pages 163-185 Ceylon: A Scottish Colony?....Pages 187-211 Addicting the Dragon? Jardine, Matheson & Co in the China Opium Trade....Pages 213-233 The Shanghai Scottish: Volunteers with Scottish, Imperial and Local Identities, 1914–41....Pages 235-257 Ethnic Associationalism and Networking among the Scots in Asia: A Longitudinal Comparison, c.1870 to the Present....Pages 259-282 The Right Kind of Migrants: Scottish Expatriates in Hong Kong Since 1950 and the Promotion of Human Capital....Pages 283-307 Back Matter....Pages 309-324