The Scottish Experience in Asia, c.1700 to the Present: Settlers and Sojourners

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This pioneering volume focuses on the scale, territorial
trajectories, impact, economic relationships, identity and nature of the
Scottish-Asia connection from the late seventeenth century to the present. It
is especially concerned with identifying whether there was a distinctive
Scottish experience and if so, what effect it had on the East. Did Scots
bring different skills to Asia and how far did their backgrounds prepare them
in different ways? Were their networks distinctive compared to other
ethnicities? What was the pull of Asia for them? Did they really punch above
their weight as some contemporaries thought, or was that just exaggerated
rhetoric? If there was a distinctive ‘Scottish effect’ how is that to be
explained?