Nation migration and the province in the first British Empire: Scotland and the Americas 1600-1800.

This essay will reconsider the experience of one of the most prevalent and certainly among the most prominent of national groups to involve itself with early British America: the Scots and in particular Lowland Scots a group for whom involvement in the Atlantic world everywhere overlapped national concerns.... The nature of those involvements led Scots to traverse both the physical and intellectual markers of national and provincial boundaries within the empire with considerable frequency.... [We] consider some of the national British and European aspects of Scottish participation in the Atlantic world. (EXCERPT)