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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of History, Classics and Archaeology : Postgraduate (School of History and Classics)

Postgraduate Course: Empire and Nation: the Scottish Experience, 1650-1850 (PGHC11217)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of History, Classics and Archaeology CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) Credits20
Home subject areaPostgraduate (School of History and Classics) Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThis 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 (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
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.
Assessment Information
One essay of 3000 words.
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
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Contacts
Course organiserProf Thomas Devine
Tel: (0131 6)50 4029
Email: t.m.devine@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Lindsay Scott
Tel: (0131 6)50 9948
Email: Lindsay.Scott@ed.ac.uk
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