Northern Scotland

Dr Marjory Harper is Reader in History at the University of Aberdeen. David Worthington is Professor of Scottish History and the Head of the Centre for History at UHI, Scotland. He is the author of British and Irish Experiences and Impressions of Central Europe, 1560-1688 (Ashgate: Aldershot, 2012) and Scots in Habsburg Service, 1618-1648 (Brill: Leiden, 2003). He is also editor of The New Coastal History: Cultural and Environmental Perspectives from Scotland and Beyond (Palgrave MacMillan: London, 2017) and British and Irish Emigrants and Exiles in Europe, 1603-1688 (Brill: Leiden, 2009).

• CONTRIBUTORSINTRODUCTIONARTICLESAndrew Perchard and Niall Mackenzie, ‘Too much on the Highlands?’ Recasting the Economic History of the Highlands and IslandsMichael Dey, Aberdeen Granite Association and the Limits of Capitalist CooperationAndrew Perchard, ‘The salvation of this district and far beyond’: Aluminium Production and the Politics of Highland DevelopmentREVIEW ARTICLE Alexander G. Kemp, The Official History of North Sea Oil and Gas. Christopher HarvieRESPONSE Sarah Glynn, Dundee Responds: a reply to Nathan Abrams’ article on the history of Dundee’s Jewish community, published in the last issue of this journal, and to his earlier book chapter, on which that article was basedREVIEWSRobert Van de Noort, North Sea Archaeologies: A Maritime Biography, 10,000 BC – AD 1500. Simon FitchAlexander Murdoch, Scotland and America, c. 1600 – c. 1800. Elizabeth Ritchie Mark R. M. Towsey, Reading the Scottish Enlightenment: Books and their Readers in Provincial Scotland, 1750-1820. Alexander MurdochS. Karly Kehoe, Creating a Scottish Church: Catholicism, Gender and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Scotland. Carmen M. MangionLindsay Reid, Midwifery in Scotland: A History. Malcolm NicolsonEwen A. Cameron, Impaled Upon a Thistle: Scotland since 1880. Darren TierneyMichael Keating, The Government of Scotland: Public Policy Making after Devolution. Duncan SimRobert C. Thomsen, Nationalism in Stateless Nations: Selves and Others in Scotland and Newfoundland. Montserrat GuibernauNathan Abrams, Caledonian Jews. A Study of Seven Small Communities in Scotland. William KenefickAndrew Blaikie, The Scots Imagination and Modern Memory. Kathryn BurnettNoel P. Wilkins (ed.), Alexander Nimmo’s Inverness Survey & Journal 1806. Arnold HornerGillian Munro and Richard A. V. Cox (eds), Cànan & Cultar/Language & Culture: Raansachadh na Gàidhlig 4. Sìm InnesDuncan Sim, American Scots: The Scottish Diaspora and the USA. Marjory HarperREPORTS FROM RESEARCH CENTRESReportage du Canada. Centre for Scottish Studies in Guelph. Graeme MortonReport on the Centre for History, University of the Highlands and Islands. David Worthington