Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries
Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries

Author: Peter Paul Bajer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-03-02

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13: 9004210652

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In the period between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries a considerable number of Scots migrated to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Some sojourned there for some time, while others stayed permanently and exercised commercial business and crafts. The migration stopped in the eighteenth century, and the Scots who remained in Poland seem to have lost their ethnic identity. This book offers an examination and assessment of this migration: numbers of migrants; patterns of settlement; laws regulating Scottish presence in Poland-Lithuania; their commercial, academic, religious and military activities; their social advancement into the Polish nobility; their assimilation and then the eventual disappearance as a distinct ethnic group in Poland-Lithuania.

Scotland and Poland
Scotland and Poland

Author: Tom M. Devine

Publisher: Birlinn

Published: 2015-07-20

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1907909346

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This collection of essays explores more than five centuries of Scottish-Polish interactions. It focuses on the two main moments of contact: the early modern experiences of Scottish pedlars, merchants, mercenaries and diplomats in the Polish-Lithuanian commonA--wealth and the Polish presence in Scotland during the twentieth and early twenty-first century. The latter period includes the Polish military presence in Scotland during World War II and the new Polish migration to Scotland after Poland's accession to the European Union in 2004. The book will be of interest to students and researchers who focus on the boom subject of early modern Scottish emigration to the European continent, and also to more general readers outside the scholarly community. It will be of value to the Polish community in Scotland and to anyone interested in the joint history of these two countries.

Oxford Slavonic Papers
Oxford Slavonic Papers

Author: C. M. MacRobert

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 2000-02-15

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9780198159902

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The Oxford Slavonic Papers contain original contributions and documents relating to the languages, literatures, culture, and history of Russia and other Slavonic countries.

Network North
Network North

Author: Steve Murdoch

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 9004146644

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Discussing a series of economic, confessional, political and espionage networks, this volume provides an illuminating study of network history in Northern Europe in the early modern period. The empirically researched chapters advance existing 'social network theory' into accessible historical discussion.

Scots in Habsburg Service
Scots in Habsburg Service

Author: D. C. Worthington

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9789004135758

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This book offers an original approach to the study of the Scottish diaspora in Europe. It highlights the activities of a group of emigrants and exiles who served the twin-headed Habsburg dynasty during the first half of the seventeenth century.

Dangerous Trade
Dangerous Trade

Author: Daniel Szechi

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2012-08-17

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1845861558

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The secret history of Europe, opening up the hidden world of spies.

Fighting for Identity
Fighting for Identity

Author: Steve Murdoch

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-07-26

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 9004474307

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This volume examines the impact of military activity upon Scotland's national identity as the country underwent a fundamental transition through domestic centralisation at the turn of the seventeenth century, integration into the United Kingdom in 1707, and as a partner in Britain's global empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is divided into three thematic sections that examine the evolution of Scottish military identity over the early modern period, how the Highland region moved from a relationship of hostility to the Lowland political authorities to the central element in eighteenth and ninteenth century Scottish soldiering, and, finally, how aspects of Scotland's civilian society interrelated with her soldiers.