Highlanders : Unlocking Identity through History

MacKillop, James

McFarland & Co Inc（2024/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 282 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781476693125
• DDC分類 941.15004916

Full Description

Rebellion was recurrent in the Highlands because the Gaels (Scoti) were an often-oppressed indigenous minority in the nation, Scotland, to which they gave their name. They spoke a language, Gaelic, few outsiders would learn, and had their own family and social system, the clans. Warfare was bloody, culminating in the catastrophe of Culloden Moor during the doomed quest to restore the Stuart kingship to all of Britain. Economic hardship, including the near-genocidal Clearances, in which tenant farmers were replaced with sheep, drove the Gaels from the glens and islands, so that most today live in the diaspora, including millions in North America. Although the Gaels lack a single genetic identity, they clearly draw from distinct roots in the Irish, Norse and Picts. Despite their hardship, the Gaels are also presented in romantic portrayals by the artistic elite of other nations. This book offers ways in which the reader might find roots and ancestry in unfamiliar terrain. Chapters discuss the landscape and language of the Highlanders, the rise of clans, feuds and invasions, and eventual emigration.

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

delete deleteThe Limits of Genealogy

A Note on the Words "Celt" and "Celtic"

1. The Foundations

delete deleteWhere Are the "Highlands"?

delete deletePeopling the Landscape

delete deletePrehistoric Testimony

delete deleteThe Scots/Gaels: Ethnogenesis

delete deleteThe Picts

delete deleteIreland and the Highlands

delete deleteThe Norse in the Highlands

delete deleteThe Scottish Gaelic Language

2. Medieval Highlands and Islands

delete deleteThe Hammer of the Norse

delete deleteThe Lordship of the Isles

delete deleteThe Rise of the Clans

delete deleteEnumeration, Rivalries, an Alliance

delete deleteFeuds and Forays

3. The Seventeenth Century

delete deleteOne King, Two Kingdoms

delete deleteWars of the Three Kingdoms, 1639-1651

delete deleteA "Bald" Poet

delete deleteDeparture of the Stuarts: The First Three Decades

4. The Dreary Eighteenth Century

delete deleteHighland Society Before Culloden

delete deleteThe Jacobites, 1745-1746

delete deleteMisery and Emigration

5. Romantic Amelioration

delete deleteImposture in Badenoch

delete deleteIndigenous Voices

delete deletePoetic Admirers from the Outside

delete deleteAbbotsford

delete deleteThe Sett That Expresses

delete deleteA Royal Patroness

delete deleteAway from Balmoral

6. After Romance

delete deleteSheep Over People

delete deleteThe Blight of the Tubers

delete deleteThe Great Disruption of 1843

delete deleteMightier Than a Lord

delete deleteThe Comic Highlander

delete deleteSuas Leis a' Ghàidhlig

Coda: Known Up Close Then Seen from Afar

Glossary: Persons, Places, Vocabulary

Bibliography

Index