Scotland, Darien and the Atlantic World, 1698-1700 /

Scotland, Darien and the Atlantic World, 1698-1700 /

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Author / Creator:	Orr, Julie (Julie M.), author.
Imprint:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018] ©2018
Description:	x, 196 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies -- History. Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies. Scots -- Darien (Panama and Colombia) -- History -- 17th century. Scots -- Darien (Panama and Colombia) -- History -- 17th century -- Sources. Scots. Darien (Panama and Colombia) -- History -- 17th century. New Caledonia (Colony) South America -- Darien. Spain -- New Caledonia (Colony) Sources. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11740443

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ISBN:	1474427545 9781474427548 9781474427531 1474427537 9781474427555 9781474427562
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-185) and index.
Summary:	"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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