Scotland and the Wider World

Provides for a historical perspective of Scotland's interaction with the world beyond its borders.

Provides for a historical perspective of Scotland's interaction with the world beyond its borders.


As one of the most prolific historians of his generation, Allan I. Macinnes, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Strathclyde, has been foremost in promoting an international rather than insular approach to the study of Scotland. In a distinguished career he has written extensively on the Scottish Highlands, the British revolutions, the formation of the United Kingdom, the Jacobite movement, and Scottish involvement in the British Empire. The chapters collected here reflect the extent of these interests and a commitment to understanding Scotland - or indeed, other territorial units - in an international or global context. Covering a period from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, essays examine the complex interaction of the peoples of the British and Irish isles; they consider Scottish participation in Britannic and European conflict; and they explore Scottish involvement in business networks, political unions, and maritime empires. From intellectual and cultural exchange to political and military upheaval, Scotland and the Wider World will be key reading for anyone interested in the antecedents to Scotland's current international standing.

1. Covenants, Clans and Unions in Context: Celebrating the Scholarship of Allan I. Macinnes
Neil McIntyre, Alison Cathcart, and John R. Young

Part I. Peoples and Cultures in Britain and Ireland
2. The Commonwealth Refounded: The British Vision in its Edwardian Moment, 1547-1550
Arthur H. Williamson
3. Island Empire: James VI and I and the Isle of Man in an Archipelagic Context
Alison Cathcart
4. The Forgotten Crisis of the Sixteenth-Century Irish Aristocracy
Ciaran Brady

Part II. War, Religion, and the House of Stuart
5. The Auld Alliance and the French Intervention in the Thirty Years' War, 1630-1648
Steve Murdoch
6. Scotophobia in Later Stuart England
Tim Harris
7. Alexander Shields (c. 1660-1700) on the Right of Punitive Arms
Neil McIntyre
8. Charles Edward Stuart and 700 Irish Soldiers? A Reappraisal of a Turning Point in the '45
Daniel Szechi

Part III. Union, Empire, and Enlightenment
9. From Didactic to Pragmatic: What Scottish Enlightenment?
Jean-François Dunyach
10. The Two Rabs' Imperial Adventure: Scottish Networks and Influence in Imperial Britain
Sarah Barber
11. Confederal Union and Empire: Placing the Albany Plan (1754) in Imperial Context
Steven Pincus
12. The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Influences on Land Legislation in Scotland and Ireland in the Late Nineteenth Century
Ewen A. Cameron

List of Publications
Index