A global force : War, Identities and Scotland's diaspora / edited by David Forsyth and Wendy Ugolini.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ugolini, Wendy, editor.

Forsyth, David (Principal curator), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scots--Foreign countries--History.

Scots.

National characteristics, Scottish--History.

National characteristics, Scottish.

War and society--Scotland--History.

War and society.

Emigration and immigration.

History.

Foreign countries.

Scotland--Emigration and immigration--History.

Scotland.

Scotland--History, Military.

History, Military.

Physical Description:

xii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

Summary:

A comparative study of Scotland's global military diaspora, focusing on the impact of the Great War Between the 1820s and 1914 over two million people emigrated from Scotland, settling primarily in North America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. One of the most distinctive ways in which the influence of the Scottish diaspora overseas expressed itself was the formation of military units which identified with Scotland. This volume provides a comparative overview of the nineteenth century emergence of military Scottishness and explores how the construction and performance of Scottish military identity has evolved in different Commonwealth countries over the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In particular, it looks at the ways in which Scottish volunteer regiments variously sought to draw upon, align themselves with or, at certain key moments, redefine the assertions of martial identity which Highland regiments represented. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1

1 Military Scotland in the Age of Proto-globalisation, c. 1690 to c. 1815 / Andrew Mackillop Mackillop, Andrew 13

2 Forging Nationhood: Scottish. Imperial Identity and the Construction of Nationhood in the Dominions, 1880-1914 / Edward M. Spiers Spiers, Edward M. 32

3 The Scottish Soldier and Scotland, 1914-1918 / Hew Strachan Strachan, Hew 53

Part 2

4 Performing Scottishness in England: Forming and Dressing the London Scottish Volunteer Rifles / Stuart Allan Allan, Stuart 73

5 Canada, Military Scottishness and the First World War / Jeff Noakes Noakes, Jeff 93

6 'A military fervour akin to religious fanaticism': Scottish Military Identity in the Australian Imperial Force / Craig Tibbitts Tibbitts, Craig 128

7 South Africa and Scotland in the First World War / Jonathan Hyslop Hyslop, Jonathan 150

8 Ngati Tumatauenga and the Kilties: New Zealand's Ethnic Military Traditions / Seán Brosnahan Brosnahan, Seán 168

9 Scottish Ethnic Associationalism, Military Identity and Diaspora Connections in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Tanja Bueltmann Bueltmann, Tanja 193.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474402736

1474402739

OCLC:

918878940