The growing Scottish Highland presence in the Caribbean after 1750 was indicative of two things. On the one hand there was a British imperial agenda intent on promoting economic development and security in the Caribbean. On the other there was a domestic agenda, with a focus on introducing the sweeping changes to Highland society that would complete the process of Highland pacification. There was also, however, a deep concern for the socio-economic and cultural survival of the Highlands which encouraged countless Highlanders to engage in myriad imperial pursuits. This article links the global with the local by considering the rise of charitable enterprise in the Scottish Highlands, one of Britain's most vulnerable regions. In considering the establishment of the region's first hospital, the Northern Infirmary at Inverness, and three academies at Fortrose, Tain and Inverness, it establishes the Scottish Highlands’ intrinsic link with the Caribbean's plantation economy.

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从加勒比海到苏格兰高地：改善时代的慈善企业，c.1750 至 c.1820

1750 年之后，苏格兰高地在加勒比地区日益增长的存在表明了两件事。一方面，英帝国的议程旨在促进加勒比地区的经济发展和安全。另一方面，有一个国内议程，重点是对高地社会进行彻底的改变，以完成高地和平进程。然而，对高地的社会经济和文化生存的深切关注鼓励了无数高地人从事无数的帝国追求。本文通过考虑在英国最脆弱的地区之一苏格兰高地兴起的慈善企业，将全球与当地联系起来。在考虑建立该地区第一家医院——因弗内斯北部医院时，