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Reveals the importance of social networks and identities to defining Highland Scots' engagements with Empire and its lasting legacies
A central, reliable and readable reference point for study of a topic that will interest a wide range of scholars and the reading public internationally
Individual chapters that will suit individual specialisms, while still being accessible to readers from other disciplines/professions
Innovative and topical commentaries which are highly readable, provocative and agenda-setting
Important (re)considerations of neglected and/or understudied perspectives and areas of scholarship, presenting new histories of understudied social groups or situations and new insight on social networks and entanglements as a key aspect of Empire
Interdisciplinary editorial team with track record of delivering edited volumes
International material to allow comparison and contextualisation and broaden readerships
This is a book about the social in Highland entanglements with Empire the networks, relationships and identities that made it possible for Highland Scots to access the Empire and its benefits. It explores from a range of perspectives the impact that these Scots had, as sojourners and settlers, on the different places they encountered. It is also a book about the present-day legacies of their engagements with Empire, and of the ongoing process of forging social and cultural identities with Highland roots.
The volume presents rigorous and insightful new research from both well-established and early career scholars, accompanied by commentary on the research and the issues it raises from a range of academic and non-academic voices. The book represents a significant contribution our understanding of the role of Highland Scots, influenced significantly by their culture and language, in creating the Empire and its legacies. It advances knowledge of just how diverse the impacts of Highland Scots were on forging landscapes and lifescapes across the Atlantic, and how their exposure to the colonial world influenced and reshaped their Diasporic identities. While the British Empire was a collaboration of diverse interests, this book will shed light on one important interest: the Highland one.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Foreword by James Hunter
Introduction: Scottish Highlands and the Atlantic World: Social Networks and Identities
S. Karly Kehoe, Annie Tindley and Chris Dalglish
PART ONE Land
1 'I prefer to establish myself in my own colony': The Translation of Aristocratic Thinking on Land and Governance between Highland Scotland and Atlantic Canada, c. 1803-1910
Annie Tindley
2 Tripped up by Tartan: Settler Colonialism and the Highland Scots on Cape Breton Island
S. Karly Kehoe
PART TWO Language and Culture
3 Gaelic Heritage, Language Revitalisation and Identity in present-day Nova Scotia
Stuart Dunmore
4 'Drochaid eadar mis' agus mo dhùthaich' ['A bridge between me and my country']: Transatlantic Networks and the Nineteenth-century Gaelic Periodical Press
Sheila Kiddvi
5 The Scottish Highlands and Warfare in the British Atlantic World, c. 1740-1815
Matthew Dziennik
PART THREE Networks of Empowerment and Oppression
6 Christian Robertson (1780-1842) and a Highland Network in the Caribbean: A Study of Complicity
David Alston
7 The Gaelic Club of Glasgow: Gateway from the Scottish Highlands to the British Atlantic World, 1780-1838
Stephen Mullen
8 Family, Society and Highland Identity in an Industrial World
Don Nerbas
Epilogue: Contested Boundaries - Documenting the Socio-cultural Dimensions of Empire
Dara Price
Index
