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245 1 0 _aEast India patronage and the British state :
_bthe Scottish elite and politics in the eighteenth century /
_cGeorge K. McGilvary
260 _aLondon :
_bBloomsbury Academic,
_c2020
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300 _a(288 p.)
490 0 _aInternational library of historical studies ;
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520 _aThe Act of Union in 1707 brought with it a new 'Great Britain'. How did the English bind the Scottish elites to the new British State, ensuring the stability of this new power in the face of possible Jacobite and international threat? From 1725 a patronage system existed in Britain enabling government ministries to use posts in the East India Company and its shipping to secure political majorities in Scotland and Westminster. Scots went to India as Company servants, ships' crews, soldiers and free-merchants, bringing back exceptional wealth to a land starved of money and providing for commercial and industrial advances throughout Great Britain.
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