Scottish Highlands and the Atlantic World

Social Networks and Identities

AvS. Karly Kehoe,Chris Dalglish

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Reveals the importance of social networks and identities to defining Highland Scots' engagements with Empire and its lasting legaciesA central, reliable and readable reference point for study of a topic that will interest a wide range of scholars and the reading public internationallyIndividual chapters that will suit individual specialisms, while still being accessible to readers from other disciplines/professionsInnovative and topical commentaries which are highly readable, provocative and agenda-settingImportant (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 EmpireInterdisciplinary editorial team with track record of delivering edited volumesInternational material to allow comparison and contextualisation and broaden readershipsThis 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-07-03
Mått:156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt:506 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Histories of the Scottish Atlantic
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474494304

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S. Karly Kehoe is Professor of History and Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Communities at Saint Mary’s University in Nova Scotia. Prior to coming to Saint Mary’s, she lived and worked in Scotland. She is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of the Global Young Academy and the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, and an alumna of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Young Academy of Scotland. Her work concentrates on Scottish and Irish Catholic settlement and colonisation in the north Atlantic, but she is also interested in sustainable development and rural change in Nova Scotia and the Scottish Highlands. INHERIT: the Institute for Heritage & Sustainable Human Development. Annie Tindley is Professor of British and Irish Rural History at Newcastle University and Head of the School of History, Classics & Archaeology. Her work interrogates land issues in the modern period including ownership, management and reform. In 2015 she established and became the first director of the Centre for Scotland's Land Futures, an inter-institutional and interdisciplinary research centre, and is the series editor for Scotland's Land, an interdisciplinary book series published by Edinburgh University Press. She is the author of The Sutherland Estate, 1850-1920 (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), and Lachlan Grant of Ballachulish, 1871-1945 (co-edited with Ewen A. Cameron, Birlinn, 2015).

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This important volume illustrates the complex entanglements between power, identity and belonging embedded in multiple historical social networks informing the Scottish Highlands’ uneasy relationship with the Atlantic World. Its thematic focus on land, language and networks of (dis)empowerment is an invaluable contribution to contemporary policy discourses in Scotland and elsewhere.

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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