Description

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The description of South Africa as a "rainbow nation" has always been taken to embrace the black, brown and white peoples who constitute its population. But each of these groups can be sub-divided and in the white case, the Scots have made one of the most distinctive contributions to the country's history. This book is the first full-length study of their role from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries and it offers a major contribution to both Scottish and South African history, in the process illuminating a significant field of the Scottish Diaspora that has so far received little attention.

About the Author

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John MacKenzie is Professor Emeritus at Lancaster University and Hon. Professor at St Andrews, Aberdeen and Stirling Universities, and Hon. Fellow at Edinburgh University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Nigel Dalziel is a freelance writer and researcher who holds a doctorate of Lancaster University and was formerly a museum curator.

Praise For…

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  "Based on innovative archival research in South Africa and written in an accessible and lucid style, this is a significant contribution to South Africa, Scottish imperial and emigration history."--Tom Devine, University of Edinburgh.
 "An outstanding piece of scholarly research, written in a style which will make it accessible to the general reader, Mackenzie’s book provides, for the first time, an historical overview of the crucial and neglected impact of Scots migrants on South African society and state."--Jonathan Hyslop, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. "For readers wanting a quick tour of the Scottish contribution to South Africa, this book is a good read." -- Pamela Scully, Emory University