Scotland and America, c.1600-c.1800

ALEXANDER MURDOCH is Senior Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and was formerly Researcher for the Scottish Records program of the North Carolina State Archives, USA. His previous publications include British History 1660-1832 (also published by Palgrave Macmillan in the British Studies series).

• PrefaceIntroductionPART I: SCOTTISH TRADE AND SETTLEMENT IN AMERICAScotland and America in the Seventeenth CenturyEmigration in the Eighteenth CenturySugar and Tobacco: 'Let Glasgow Flourish'PART II: TRANSATLANTIC SCOTLAND: CULTURAL EXCHANGE BETWEEN SCOTLAND AND AMERICASlavery and ScotlandScotland and Native Peoples in the AmericasThe Spiritual ConnectionEpilogue: The Scottish Invention of the USANotesBibliographyIndex.

'...evaluates the transatlantic context within which Scotland became defined by union with England, and it is this thesis which most clearly differentiates Murdoch's important study from the substantial stable of other publications on Scottish--American relations in the post-union period.' -Marjorie Harper, History 'Few scholars today would dispute ... the Scottish Enlightenment made a major contribution to the developing culture of colonial, revolutionary and postrevolutionary America. To that impressive body of recent scholarship, Alexander Murdoch's book is a most welcome addition.' - Andrew Hook, The Journal of American Studies 'The most original contribution of Murdoch's book is his investigation of the influences originating in America and impacting events and perceptions in Scotland during the nineteenth century.' - Martin Clagett, Eighteenth-Century Scotland