Scotland, Darien and the Atlantic World, 1698-1700
Regular price
€112.99
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
A01=Julie Orr
Author_Julie Orr
Category=NHD
Darien
Diaspora
Economic History
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
New Caledonia
Scottish History
Slavery
Product details
- ISBN 9781474427531
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 02 Oct 2018
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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.
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.
