The Scots in South Africa : ethnicity, identity, gender and race, 1772-1914
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The Scots in South Africa : ethnicity, identity, gender and race, 1772-1914
（Studies in imperialism / general editor, John M. MacKenzie）
Manchester University Press, 2007
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Description
The description of South Africa as a 'rainbow nation' has always been taken to embrace the black, brown and white peoples who constitute its population. But each of these groups can be sub-divided and in the white case, the Scots have made one of the most distinctive contributions to the country's history.
The Scots, as in North America and Australasia, constituted an important element in the patterns of White settlement. They were already present in the area of Dutch East India Company rule and, after the first British occupation of the Cape in 1795, their numbers rose dramatically. They were exceptionally active in such areas as exploration, botanical and scientific endeavour, military campaigns, the emergence of Christian missions, Western education, intellectual institutions, the professions as well as enterprise and technical developments, business, commerce and journalism.
This book is the first full-length study of their role from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. It highlights the interaction of Scots with African peoples, the manner in which missions and schools were credited with producing 'Black Scotsmen' and the ways in which they pursued many distinctive policies. It also deals with the inter weaving of issues of gender, class and race as well as with the means by which Scots clung to their ethnicity through founding various social and cultural societies. This book offers a major contribution to both Scottish and South African history and in the process illuminates a significant field of the Scottish Diaspora that has so far received little attention. -- .
Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Imperialism and Identities
Scots and empire
Scottish identity, Scotland and southern Africa
2. The Scots Presence at the Cape
The travelling Scot
Prominent Scots in the British Occupations
The Moodie Settlement
The 1820 Settlement
3. Radicals, Evangelicals, the Scottish Enlightenment and Cape Colonial Autocracy
How many Scots?
Somerset and the 'Scotch Independents'
Greig and the Dissemination of the Press
Reform and Emancipation
Fairbairn: commerce, finance and education
Representative Government
Intellectual and Scientific Institutions
Conclusion
4. Scots Missions and the Frontier
The Military Frontier
The Missionary Frontier
Scots Missionaries: Politics, Land and War
Mission Education: the Lovedale and Blythswood Institutions
Lovedale and Medical Mission
African Ministers
Scots Women on the Frontier
Natal and the Gordon Memorial Mission
Conclusion
5. Continuing Migration to Natal, Cape and Transvaal
Migration to Natal
Byrne and other settlements
Success Stories
Ne'er Do Wells
Women and entrepreneurship
White Population and Later Settlements
Immigration to the Cape
New Scotland
South Africa and the Migration Boom
6. Professionals: the Church and Education
The Church: Dutch Reformed
The Church: Presbyterian
Education: Schools
Higher Education
7. The Professionals: the Environment, Medicine, Business, and Radicals
Scots and the Environment
Medicine
Business
Radicals
8. Maintaining Scots Identity
Caledonian and other Scottish Societies
The South African Scot
The South African 'Scottish' Regiments
Scotland and South African 'Scottishness'
9. Conclusion -- .
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