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Chargement... The Price of Scotland: Darien, Union and the Wealth of Nationspar Douglas Watt
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. In 1698, a Scottish company tried to establish a colony in Darien (Panama). 71% of the colonists died (some 2,000) and this withering experience lived on in memory. In the 1860's David Livingstone was cautioned against trying to start a Scottish colony in Barotseland because of the lessons of the Darien disaster. The author, in an otherwise extremely well-phrased book, calls Darien "an early example of a corporate cock-up on the grand scale." (p.253) The sentence construction in this book is to be wondered at - all the way through. It is easy to read even when one is befuddled by the details of Scottish history. The English, who took mean and determined steps to undermine the Company of Scotland, later paid a bail-out to shareholders that secured the easy passage of the Act of Union in 1707 (which created Great Britain). The book allows one to understand what a Jacobite was. The quote that southern Scotland before union was in the grip of a clerical tyranny like the Taleban is intrigueing. (p.251) ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
The Price of Scotland covers a well-known episode in Scottish history, the ill-fated Darien Scheme. It recounts for the first time in almost forty years, the history of the Company of Scotland, looking at previously unexamined evidence and considering the failure in light of the Company's financial records. Douglas Watt offers the reader a new way of looking at this key moment in history, from the attempt to raise capital in London in 1695 through to the shareholder bail-out as part of the Treaty of Union in 1707. With the tercentenary of the Union in May 2007, The Price of Scotland provides a timely reassessment of this national disaster. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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