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In 1698 the Parliament of Scotland, in one of its last acts before the nation lost its political identity, decided to establish a noble trading company and sett
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In defiance of the king and in the face of English hostility, the Scottish parliament set out to establish a colony in Central America. This dream of William Pa
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The first book to analyze the interplay of cultural memory, politics and the changing media ecology of early eighteenth-century Britain.
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The Price of Scotland
Language: en
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Authors: Douglas Watt
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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 hi