The Scots in South Africa: Ethnicity, Identity, Gender and Race, 1772-1914

John MacKenzie is Professor Emeritus at Lancaster University and Hon. Professor at St Andrews, Aberdeen and Stirling Universities, and Hon. Fellow at Edinburgh University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Nigel Dalziel is a freelance writer and researcher who holds a doctorate of Lancaster University and was formerly a museum curator.

The description of South Africa as a "rainbow nation" has always been taken to embrace the black, brown and white peoples who constitute its population. But each of these groups can be sub-divided and in the white case, the Scots have made one of the most distinctive contributions to the country's history. This book is the first full-length study of their role from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries and it offers a major contribution to both Scottish and South African history, in the process illuminating a significant field of the Scottish Diaspora that has so far received little attention.

CONTENTS Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Imperialism and Identities Scots and empire Scottish identity, Scotland and southern Africa 2. The Scots Presence at the Cape The travelling Scot Prominent Scots in the British Occupations The Moodie Settlement The 1820 Settlement 3. Radicals, Evangelicals, the Scottish Enlightenment and Cape Colonial Autocracy How many Scots? Somerset and the 'Scotch Independents' Greig and the Dissemination of the Press Reform and Emancipation Fairbairn: commerce, finance and education Representative Government Intellectual and Scientific Institutions Conclusion 4. Scots Missions and the Frontier The Military Frontier The Missionary Frontier Scots Missionaries: Politics, Land and War Mission Education: the Lovedale and Blythswood Institutions Lovedale and Medical Mission African Ministers Scots Women on the Frontier Natal and the Gordon Memorial Mission Conclusion 5. Continuing Migration to Natal, Cape and Transvaal Migration to Natal Byrne and other settlements Success Stories Ne'er Do Wells Women and entrepreneurship White Population and Later Settlements Immigration to the Cape New Scotland South Africa and the Migration Boom 6. Professionals: the Church and Education The Church: Dutch Reformed The Church: Presbyterian Education: Schools Higher Education 7. The Professionals: the Environment, Medicine, Business, and Radicals Scots and the Environment Medicine Business Radicals 8. Maintaining Scots Identity Caledonian and other Scottish Societies The South African Scot The South African 'Scottish' Regiments Scotland and South African 'Scottishness' 9. Conclusion