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 of archival sources to paint a detailed picture of the lives of thousands of Scots who sought fortunes and opportunities, as Burns wrote, ‘across th’ Atlantic roar’. It outlines the range of their occupations as planters, merchants, slave owners, doctors, overseers, and politicians, and shows how Caribbean connections affected Scottish society during the period of ‘improvement’. The book highlights the Scots’ reinvention of the system of clanship to structure their social relations in the empire and finds that involvement in the Caribbean also bound Scots and English together in a shared Atlantic imperial enterprise and played a key role in the emergence of the British nation and the Atlantic World.
From an early childhood in the grandeur of Hamilton Palace through a career in which there were constant strong threads, Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton experienced an enormously varied, active and colorful life including aviation, mountaineering, politics, and a deep love of Scotland. He climbed especially in Scotland and the Alps but also the New Zealand Southern Alps, Mount Kenya and the Rocky Mountains of America. He was for a few years MP for Inverness-shire. He disappeared in West Africa in 1964 in course of taking an aircraft from New York to the Congo. He was 54 when he died.--Adapted from the back cover.
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