Scottish Highlands and the Atlantic World

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).

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.

• 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