Rethinking the Eighteenth-Century Province and Periphery - A Historiographical Reflection on Scotland, Scottish Thought, and the Government of the British Atlantic Empire -
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This article seeks to interrogate and reframe important historiographical facets of the increasingly prominent field of Atlantic History. Specifically, it questions the historiographical treatment of alleged shared perspectives in Scottish and colonial American thought about the governance of the eighteenth-century British Empire. A very influential view of the evolution of the early modern British Atlantic Empire focuses on growing tensions between provincial and metropolitan understanding s of imperial structures using the center-periphery model employed by many social scientists interested in patterns of governance and culture. Whilst there is certainly much useful in this historiographical framework, particularly for examining American political and constitutional history, it is vital to appreciate the crucial differences between American and Scottish participation in the early modern British Atlantic Empire. Reflecting the very different institutional structures and their related political cultures in Scotland and the American colonies, and perhaps most importantly their profoundly different understandings of history, leading eighteenth-century Scottish commentators differed sharply from the mainstream of colonial American discourse in their self-conscious and explicit identification with the authority of the metropolitan center embodied in the Westminster Parliament.
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This article seeks to interrogate and reframe important historiographical facets of the increasingly prominent field of Atlantic History. Specifically, it questions the historiographical treatment of alleged shared perspectives in Scottish and colonial American thought about the governance of the eighteenth-century British Empire. A very influential view of the evolution of the early modern British Atlantic Empire focuses on growing tensions between provincial and metropolitan understanding s of imperial structures using the center-periphery model employed by many social scientists interested in patterns of governance and culture. Whilst there is certainly much useful in this historiographical framework, particularly for examining American political and constitutional history, it is vital to appreciate the crucial differences between American and Scottish participation in the early modern British Atlantic Empire. Reflecting the very different institutional structures and their related political cultures in Scotland and the American colonies, and perhaps most importantly their profoundly different understandings of history, leading eighteenth-century Scottish commentators differed sharply from the mainstream of colonial American discourse in their self-conscious and explicit identification with the authority of the metropolitan center embodied in the Westminster Parliament.
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