books.google.de - This volume examines Scotland's experience of and reaction to European expansion between c. 1600-1800. Although Scotland lacked an independent empire in the seventeenth century, it gained unfettered access to the global empire of England after 1707. The volume argues that, beneath this seemingly stark...http://books.google.de/books/about/Military_governors_and_imperial_frontier.html?hl=de&id=XlFrbYjhEboC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareMilitary governors and imperial frontiers c. 1600-1800