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xvii, 397 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Imperial Scots 1750-1815 -- Did slavery help to make Scotland great? -- Industrial and financial sinews of Scottish global power 1815-1914 -- The great migration -- Human selection and enforced exile -- In the land of the free: Scots and Irish in the USA -- Emigrant experience in the new lands -- Settlers, traders and native peoples -- The missionary dynamic -- Soldiers of empire -- Funding the new lands -- Eclipse of empires -- Diaspora 1945-2010.
Published simultaneously in Great Britain, entitled: Scotland's diaspora, 1750-2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.