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Title Military governors and imperial frontiers c. 1600-1800 : a study of Scotland and empires / edited by A. Mackillop and Steve Murdoch.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (li, 245 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series History of warfare ; v. 17
History of warfare ; v. 17.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Scotsmen on the Danish-Norwegian Frontiers c. 1580-1680 -- 2. At the Edge of Civilisation: John Cunningham, Lensmann of Finnmark, 1619-51 -- 3. A Century of Scottish Governorship in the Swedish Empire, 1574-1700 -- 4. An Irish Governor of Scotland: Lord Broghill, 1655-1656 -- 5. Field-Marshal James Keith: Governor of the Ukraine and Finland, 1740-1743 -- 6. Gabriel Johnston and the Portability of Patronage in the Eighteenth-Century North Atlantic World -- 7. James Glen and the Indians -- 8. Governor Robert Dinwiddie and the Virginia Frontier, 1751-57 -- 9. Robert Melville and the Frontiers of Empire in the British West Indies, 1763-1771 -- 10. Fashioning a 'British' Empire: Sir Archibald Campbell of Inverneil and Madras, 1785-9 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Colour Plates.
Summary Examines Scotland's experience of and reaction to European expansion between 1600-1800. Although Scotland lacked an independent empire in the 17th century, it gained access to the global empire of England after 1707. It covers the geographic extent of Scotland's engagement in European expansion.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject Scotland -- History, Military.
Scotland.
History, Military.
Scotland -- History -- 18th century.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Scotland -- Politics and government -- 18th century.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1600-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Military history.
Added Author Mackillop, Andrew, 1969-
Murdoch, Steve.
Other Form: Print version: Military governors and imperial frontiers c. 1600-1800. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003 9004129707 (DLC) 2002044052 (OCoLC)51460624
ISBN 1423711882 (electronic book)
9781423711889 (electronic book)
9047402006
9789047402008
9789004129702 (cloth)
9004129707 (cloth)
9004129707 (acid-free paper)