Scottish colonization before Darien : opportunities and opposition in the union of the crowns

• Main Author: Wagner, Joseph
• Other Authors: Murdoch, Steve
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of St Andrews 2021
• Subjects: Scotland; Colonization; Seventeenth century; Union of the crowns; Britain; Stuart monarchy; Newfoundland; Nova Scotia; New Jersey; Carolina; Sovereignty; Transatlantic; DA774.5W24; Scots > Foreign countries > History; Scotland > Emigration and immigration > History; Colonization > History; Newfoundland and Labrador > History > 17th century; Nova Scotia > History > 1603-1713; Maryland > History > Colonial period; ca. 1600-1775; South Carolina > History > Colonial period; Pratt
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10023/21680; https://doi.org/10.17630/sta/47

This thesis aims to provide a detailed account of Scottish colonisation efforts in the seventeenth century. In the first place, it seeks to provide an update to the only book-length study of the topic, George Pratt Insh’s 1922 Scottish Colonial Schemes, which covered Scottish efforts in Newfoundland...