CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Imperialism and Identities
Scots and empire
Scottish identity, Scotland and southern Africa
2. The Scots Presence at the Cape
The travelling Scot
Prominent Scots in the British Occupations
The Moodie Settlement
The 1820 Settlement
3. Radicals, Evangelicals, the Scottish Enlightenment and Cape
Colonial Autocracy
How many Scots?
Somerset and the ‘Scotch Independents’
Greig and the Dissemination of the Press
Reform and Emancipation
Fairbairn: commerce, finance and education
Representative Government
Intellectual and Scientific Institutions
Conclusion
4. Scots Missions and the Frontier
The Military Frontier
The Missionary Frontier
Scots Missionaries: Politics, Land and War
Mission Education: the Lovedale and Blythswood Institutions
Lovedale and Medical Mission
African Ministers
Scots Women on the Frontier
Natal and the Gordon Memorial Mission
Conclusion
5. Continuing Migration to Natal, Cape and Transvaal
Migration to Natal
Byrne and other settlements
Success Stories
Ne’er Do Wells
Women and entrepreneurship
White Population and Later Settlements
Immigration to the Cape
New Scotland
South Africa and the Migration Boom
6. Professionals: the Church and Education
The Church: Dutch Reformed
The Church: Presbyterian
Education: Schools
Higher Education
7. The Professionals: the Environment, Medicine, Business, and
Radicals
Scots and the Environment
Medicine
Business
Radicals
8. Maintaining Scots Identity
Caledonian and other Scottish Societies
The South African Scot
The South African ‘Scottish’ Regiments
Scotland and South African ‘Scottishness’
9. Conclusion
John MacKenzie is Professor Emeritus at Lancaster University and Hon. Professor at St Andrews, Aberdeen and Stirling Universities, and Hon. Fellow at Edinburgh University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Nigel Dalziel is a freelance writer and researcher who holds a doctorate of Lancaster University and was formerly a museum curator
"Based on innovative archival research in South Africa and written
in an accessible and lucid style, this is a significant
contribution to South Africa, Scottish imperial and emigration
history."--Tom Devine, University of Edinburgh.
"An outstanding piece of scholarly research, written in a style
which will make it accessible to the general reader, Mackenzie's
book provides, for the first time, an historical overview of the
crucial and neglected impact of Scots migrants on South African
society and state."--Jonathan Hyslop, University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. "For readers wanting a quick tour of
the Scottish contribution to South Africa, this book is a good
read." -- Pamela Scully, Emory University
"Based on innovative archival research in South Africa and
written in an accessible and lucid style, this is a significant
contribution to South Africa, Scottish imperial and emigration
history."--Tom Devine, University of Edinburgh.
"An outstanding piece of scholarly research, written in a
style which will make it accessible to the general reader,
Mackenzie’s book provides, for the first time, an historical
overview of the crucial and neglected impact of Scots migrants on
South African society and state."--Jonathan Hyslop, University of
the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. "For readers wanting a quick
tour of the Scottish contribution to South Africa, this book is a
good read." -- Pamela Scully, Emory University
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