Neil McIntyre & Alison Cathcart 
Scotland and the Wider World 
Essays in Honour of Allan I. Macinnes

Provides for a historical perspective of Scotland’s interaction with the world beyond its borders.




As one of the most prolific historians of his generation, Allan I. Macinnes, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Strathclyde, has been foremost in promoting an international rather than insular approach to the study of Scotland. In a distinguished career he has written extensively on the Scottish Highlands, the British revolutions, the formation of the United Kingdom, the Jacobite movement, and Scottish involvement in the British Empire. The chapters collected here reflect the extent of these interests and a commitment to understanding Scotland – or indeed, other territorial units – in an international or global context. Covering a period from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, essays examine the complex interaction of the peoples of the British and Irish isles; they consider Scottish participation in Britannic and European conflict; and they explore Scottish involvement in business networks, political unions, and maritime empires. From intellectual and cultural exchange to political and military upheaval, Scotland and the Wider World will be key reading for anyone interested in the antecedents to Scotland’s current international standing.

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1. Covenants, Clans and Unions in Context: Celebrating the Scholarship of Allan I. Macinnes

Neil Mc Intyre, Alison Cathcart, and John R. Young


Part I. Peoples and Cultures in Britain and Ireland

2. The Commonwealth Refounded: The British Vision in its Edwardian Moment, 1547-1550

Arthur H. Williamson

3. Island Empire: James VI and I and the Isle of Man in an Archipelagic Context

Alison Cathcart

4. The Forgotten Crisis of the Sixteenth-Century Irish Aristocracy

Ciaran Brady


Part II. War, Religion, and the House of Stuart

5. The Auld Alliance and the French Intervention in the Thirty Years’ War, 1630-1648


Steve Murdoch

6. Scotophobia in Later Stuart England


Tim Harris

7. Alexander Shields (
c. 1660-1700) on the Right of Punitive Arms


Neil Mc Intyre

8. Charles Edward Stuart and 700 Irish Soldiers? A Reappraisal of a Turning Point in the ’45


Daniel Szechi


Part III. Union, Empire, and Enlightenment

9. From Didactic to Pragmatic: What Scottish Enlightenment?


Jean-François Dunyach

10. The Two Rabs’ Imperial Adventure: Scottish Networks and Influence in Imperial Britain


Sarah Barber

11. Confederal Union and Empire: Placing the Albany Plan (1754) in Imperial Context


Steven Pincus

12. The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Influences on Land Legislation in Scotland and Ireland in the Late Nineteenth Century


Ewen A. Cameron


List of Publications

Index