Empire and Nation: the Scottish Experience, 1650-1850 (P01731)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : HCA-P-EmpiNatio

This course relates to the organiser's current work on Scotland and Empire. Already one of two volumes has been published (Scotland's Empire, 1600-1815, 2003) and a second, Imperial Scots: Nation and Empire since 1815, is in progress.

The course engages with key aspects in imperial historiography from a Scottish perspective. In addition, it not only looks outward - the conventional approach in imperial history - but inwards through an examination of the impact of empire on Scottish identity, politics, economy and culture.

Topics to be considered include:
- Ulster: Scotland's First Colony?
- Colonising the East India Company
- Scotland and Slavery
- Imperial Emigrants
- The Scottish Enlightenment and the American Revolution
- Empire and the Industrial Revolution
- Empire, Culture and Identity
- Scottish Militarism

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of History and Classics), (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Schedule E)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 1 hour(s) 50 minutes per week for 11 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Students will enhance their skills in the reading and analysis of secondary literature and appropriate primary sources. They will also:
- Gain a further understanding of historical processes by examining the relationship between homeland (metropole) and global empire and vice versa.
- Explore the historiographical debate both on empire in the appropriate period and also the Scottish imperial experience.
- Develop insight into the 'new Atlantic History'.
- Examine, where appropriate, the comparative experience of the other nations of the British Isles in the imperial project.
- Develop their analytical skills through researching and writing a 4,000-word essay on a topic to be agreed with the course organiser.
- Take responsibility for their own learning and develop their capacity for independent thought.