Scottish Highlands and the Atlantic World: Social Networks and Identities 9781474494328
Reveals the importance of social networks and identities to defining Highland Scots’ engagements with Empire and its las
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English Pages 224 [232] Year 2023
Table of contents :
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Foreword
Introduction: Scottish Highlands and the Atlantic World: Social Networks and Identities
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
2 Tripped up by Tartan: Settler Colonialism and the Highland Scots on Cape Breton Island
PART TWO Language and Culture
3 Gaelic Heritage, Language Revitalisation and Identity in Present-day Nova Scotia
4 ‘Drochaid eadar mis’ agus mo dhùthaich’ [‘A bridge between me and my country’]: Transatlantic Networks and the Nineteenth-century Gaelic Periodical Press
5 The Scottish Highlands and Warfare in the British Atlantic World, c. 1740–1815
PART THREE Networks of Empowerment and Oppression
6 Christian Robertson (1780–1842) and a Highland Network in the Caribbean: A Study of Complicity
7 The Gaelic Club of Glasgow: Gateway from the Scottish Highlands to the British Atlantic World, 1780–1838
8 Family, Society and Highland Identity in an Industrial World
Epilogue: Contested Boundaries – Documenting the Socio-cultural Dimensions of Empire
Index
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Foreword
Introduction: Scottish Highlands and the Atlantic World: Social Networks and Identities
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
2 Tripped up by Tartan: Settler Colonialism and the Highland Scots on Cape Breton Island
PART TWO Language and Culture
3 Gaelic Heritage, Language Revitalisation and Identity in Present-day Nova Scotia
4 ‘Drochaid eadar mis’ agus mo dhùthaich’ [‘A bridge between me and my country’]: Transatlantic Networks and the Nineteenth-century Gaelic Periodical Press
5 The Scottish Highlands and Warfare in the British Atlantic World, c. 1740–1815
PART THREE Networks of Empowerment and Oppression
6 Christian Robertson (1780–1842) and a Highland Network in the Caribbean: A Study of Complicity
7 The Gaelic Club of Glasgow: Gateway from the Scottish Highlands to the British Atlantic World, 1780–1838
8 Family, Society and Highland Identity in an Industrial World
Epilogue: Contested Boundaries – Documenting the Socio-cultural Dimensions of Empire
Index
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- S. Karly Kehoe (editor)
- Chris Dalglish (editor)
- Annie Tindley (editor)
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