Julie Orr

Scotland, Darien and the Atlantic World, 1698-1700 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book synthesises the rare indigenous voice with newly discovered archival sources in Spain, Jamaica and the United States. The result is a new and expanded chronicle of the Scottish Panamanian initiative. It broadens what we know about the Company of Scotland beyond British history and into its rightful place in the saga of the multinational, tumultuous seventeenth-century Atlantic world.Julie Orr offers an in-depth analysis of the complex sociopolitics into which the Scots recklessly inserted themselves through their choice of Darien for settlement. Entanglement with slave-trading interests; the trial of five expedition participants in Spain; the dispatch of Admiral Benbow to the Caribbean with offers of assistance to Spanish governors; the activities of the Scottish spy Walter Herries; and the unintended diaspora of deserters, prisoners and survivors - all are afforded their rightful place in the story of Scotland's attempt to establish a trading colony on the isthmus of Panama.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474427562
• Artikelnr.: 56521159

Autorenporträt

Julie Orr is an independent scholar who acquired a PhD in history from the University of Dundee following a career in environmental health and science for a series of tribal, state and federal governments.

Inhaltsangabe

Maps and Figures
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Unintended Itineraries I: Desertion, Opportunity and a Spy
Chapter 3. Unintended Itineraries II: Prisoners
Chapter 4. Admirals, Governors and Slavetraders
Chapter 5. The Long Reach of Spanish Justice
Chapter 6. The View from Spanish America
Chapter 7. View from Disparate America
Chapter 8. Darien Consequences
Appendix I Caledonia: The Declaration of the Council constituted by the
Indian and African Company of Scotland, for the government and direction of
their Colonies and Settlements in the Indies
Appendix II Articles of Agreement betwixt the Council of Caledonia and
Captain Ephraim Pilkingtoun
Abbreviations
Bibliography