“Hereticks for believing the Antipodes”: Scottish colonial identities in the Darien, 1698-1700

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dc.contributor.authorChassé, Patrick
dc.contributor.supervisorVibert, Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned2007-09-11T16:52:52Z
dc.date.available2007-09-11T16:52:52Z
dc.date.copyright2007en_US
dc.date.issued2007-09-11T16:52:52Z
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of History
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractNew Caledonia (1698-1700) was Scotland’s largest independent colonial venture. The scheme’s collapse crippled the country financially and was an important factor in the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707. This project explores the identity of Scottish settlers who attempted to colonize the Darien region of modern Panama. Colonial identity is assessed by reconstructing the Scottish dialogue about the natural world, the aboriginal population, and the commonwealth. I contend that the ideology of improvement that shaped Scottish perceptions of utility and fertility in the Darien became a powerful moral discourse used to critique the colonists. This paper also chronicles Scottish aspirations to found an empire of trade and civility, uncovering the fundamental problems created by the idealization of the Tule as eager subjects of this new empire. Finally, I argue that Caledonia’s food shortages not only threatened the colonial government’s legitimacy, they also exposed divergent ideals of the commonwealth among the settlers.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/228
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectDarienen_US
dc.subjectNew Caledoniaen_US
dc.subjectScotlanden_US
dc.subjectColonialen_US
dc.subjectIdentityen_US
dc.subjectImprovementen_US
dc.subjectEmpireen_US
dc.subjectTuleen_US
dc.subjectPanamaen_US
dc.subjectFooden_US
dc.subjectCivilityen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::History::Europe--Historyen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::History::Latin America--Historyen_US
dc.title“Hereticks for believing the Antipodes”: Scottish colonial identities in the Darien, 1698-1700en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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