CONTENTS
| List of Illustrations | vii | |
| List of Abbreviations | ix | |
| List of Contributors | xi | |
| Foreword by John M. MacKenzie | xiii | |
| Acknowledgements | xxiii | |
| Introduction | xxv | |
| 1. | Scotsmen on the Danish-Norwegian Frontiers c. 1580–1680 Steve Murdoch | 1 |
| 2. | At the Edge of Civilisation: John Cunningham, Lensmann of Finnmark, 1619–51 Rune Hagen | 29 |
| 3. | A Century of Scottish Governorship in the Swedish Empire, 1574–1700 Alexia Grosjean | 53 |
| 4. | An Irish Governor of Scotland: Lord Broghill, 1655–1656 Patrick Little | 79 |
| 5. | Field-Marshal James Keith: Governor of the Ukraine and Finland, 1740–1743 Atina L.K. Nihtinen | 99 |
| 6. | Gabriel Johnston and the Portability of Patronage in the Eighteenth-Century North Atlantic World Tim Hanson | 119 |
| 7. | James Glen and the Indians Alex Murdoch | 141 |
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