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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on the Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- A Tribute to Sir Tom Devine -- Introduction Global Migrations: The Scottish Diaspora since 1600 -- 'As Hewers of Wood, and Drawers of Water'? Scotland as an Emigrant Nation, c. 1600 to c. 1800 -- 'You Have Only Seen the Fortunate Few and Draw Your Conclusion Accordingly': Behavioural Economics and the Paradox of Scottish Emigration -- Scottish Diasporas and Africa -- 'Have the Scotch no Claim upon the Cherokees?' Scots, Indians and Scots Indians in the American South -- Conflicts of Interest, Crises of Conscience: Scots and Aboriginal People in Eastern Australia, 1830s-1861 -- The Importance of Scottish Origins in the Nineteenth Century: James Taylor and Ceylon Tea -- 'Our Old World Diff'rences are Dead': The Scottish Migrant Military Tradition in the British Dominions during the First World War -- 'Part of my Heritage': Ladies' Pipe Bands, Associational Culture and 'Homeland' Identities in the Scottish Diaspora -- Understanding Scottishness among Sojourners, Settlers and Descendants in Hong Kong and New Zealand -- Encountering an Imaginary Heritage: Roots Tourism and the Scottish Diaspora -- Home is where the Heart is: Affinity Scots in the Scottish Diaspora -- What Scottish Diaspora? -- Afterword -- Index

Ecology and Empire examines the relationship between the expansion of empire and the environmental experience of the extra-European world. For the first time it moves the debate beyond the North American frontier by comparing the experience of settler societies in Australia, South Africa and Latin America. From Australian water management and the crisis of deforestation in Latin America, to beef farming in the Transvaal, this topical book provides a broad comparative historical approach to the impact of humanity on the ecological systems on which settler societies base their livelihood