Scottish Highlands and the Atlantic World : Social Networks and Identities (Histories of the Scottish Atlantic)

Kehoe, S. Karly (EDT)/ Dalglish, Chris (EDT)/ Tindley, Annie (EDT)

Edinburgh University Press（2025/05発売）

Edinburgh University Press（2025/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 232 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474494311
• DDC分類 909.049163

Full Description

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