Postgraduate Course: Empire and Nation: the Scottish Experience, 1650-1850 (PGHC11217)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Postgraduate (School of History and Classics) |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course relates to the organiser's current work on Scotland and Empire. Already one of two volumes has been published (Scotland's Empire, 1600-1815, 2003) and a second, Imperial Scots: Nation and Empire since 1815, is in progress.
The course engages with key aspects in imperial historiography from a Scottish perspective. In addition, it not only looks outward - the conventional approach in imperial history - but inwards through an examination of the impact of empire on Scottish identity, politics, economy and culture.
Topics to be considered include:
- Ulster: Scotland's First Colony?
- Colonising the East India Company
- Scotland and Slavery
- Imperial Emigrants
- The Scottish Enlightenment and the American Revolution
- Empire and the Industrial Revolution
- Empire, Culture and Identity
- Scottish Militarism
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Students will enhance their skills in the reading and analysis of secondary literature and appropriate primary sources. They will also:
- Gain a further understanding of historical processes by examining the relationship between homeland (metropole) and global empire and vice versa.
- Explore the historiographical debate both on empire in the appropriate period and also the Scottish imperial experience.
- Develop insight into the 'new Atlantic History'.
- Examine, where appropriate, the comparative experience of the other nations of the British Isles in the imperial project.
- Develop their analytical skills through researching and writing a 4,000-word essay on a topic to be agreed with the course organiser.
- Take responsibility for their own learning and develop their capacity for independent thought.
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Assessment Information
| One essay of 3000 words. |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Thomas Devine
Tel: (0131 6)50 4029
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Course secretary | Mrs Lindsay Scott
Tel: (0131 6)50 9948
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