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[email protected] The ‘Glasgow West India interest’: Integration, Collaboration and E xploitation in the British Atlantic World, 1776 - 1846 Stephen Scott Mullen B.A, M.Sc. Submitted in fulfillment for the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, History School of Humanities College of Arts University of Glasgow May 201 5 (c) Stephen S. Mullen, May 201 5 Abstract Th is thesis aims to illuminate the economic and social world of the Glasgow - West India merchants, planters and the temporary economic migrants who travelled across the Atlantic during the period, 1776 - 1846. The city of Glasgow and her satellit e ports was the premier Scottish transatlantic hub with connections across the British Atlantic world. This thesis has focused on the per iod after the American War of Independence ended the city of Glasgow’s tobacco monopoly.