John M. MacKenzie - The Scots in South Africa

general editor John M. MacKenzie

When the Studies in Imperialism series was founded more than twenty years ago, emphasis was laid upon the conviction that imperialism as a cultural phenomenon had as significant an effect on the dominant as on the subordinate societies. With more than sixty books published, this remains the prime concern of the series. Cross-disciplinary work has indeed appeared covering the full spectrum of cultural phenomena, as well as examining aspects of gender and sex, frontiers and law, science and the environment, language and literature, migration and patriotic societies, and much else. Moreover, the series has always wished to present comparative work on European and American imperialism, and particularly welcomes the submission of books in these areas. The fascination with imperialism, in all its aspects, shows no sign of abating, and this series will continue to lead the way in encouraging the widest possible range of studies in the field. Studies in Imperialism is fully organic in its development, always seeking to be at the cutting edge, responding to the latest interests of scholars and the needs of this ever-expanding area of scholarship.

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John M. MacKenzie

with Nigel R. Dalziel

Copyright John M. MacKenzie 2007

The right of John M. MacKenzie to be identified as the author of this work has been
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This important book is one product of an innovative academic development in diaspora studies sponsored by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) from 2001. In that year the AHRC provided substantial funding for a Research Centre in Irish and Scottish Studies hosted by the University of Aberdeen but also consisting of scholars drawn from its partner institutions of Queens University, Belfast, and Trinity College, Dublin. Both the Irish and Scots contributed disproportionately to emigration from the British Isles and so intrinsic to the venture, in addition to research programmes in languages and literatures, were several projects on the nature, origins and impact of the mobility of these two ethnic groups at the global level from the seventeenth century to the present.

John MacKenzies fine book on the Scots in South Africa is one of the first of these studies to appear in print. Previous works have considered the role of the Scots in Canada, the United States and Australasia but never before has the Scottish community in South Africa been considered in such systematic fashion. This, then, is a truly pioneering volume thoroughly based on archival work on Southern Africa together with a comprehensive reading of the secondary literature. The Scottish contribution to missionary activity in Africa and particularly the role of the legendary David Livingstone are reasonably familiar areas. But MacKenzie breaks much new ground in his examination of such key themes as identity, ethnicity, politics, education, science, intellectual developments and much else. The result is a wonderfully rich and textured evaluation of the impact of the Scots on the history of nineteenth-century South Africa which helps to fill a yawning gap in the study of the Scottish diaspora.