The Fatal Land : War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America / Matthew P. Dziennik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dziennik, Matthew P., Author.

Series:

Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.

The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Army--Scottish regiments--History--18th century.

Great Britain.

Soldiers--Scotland--History--18th century.

Soldiers.

Soldiers--North America--History--18th century.

United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763--Participation, Scottish.

United States.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, Scottish.

Great Britain--History, Military--18th century.

Scotland--History, Military--18th century.

Scotland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

More than 12,000 soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland were recruited to serve in Great Britain's colonies in the Americas in the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century. In this compelling history, Matthew P. Dziennik corrects the mythologized image of the Highland soldier as a noble savage, a primitive if courageous relic of clanship, revealing instead how the Gaels used their military service to further their own interests and, in doing so, transformed the most maligned region of the British Isles into an important center of the British Empire.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. A Perfect Purgatory: Recruitment in the Scottish Highlands

2. Spirited Martialists: The Highlander as Military Laborer

3. The Same as Other Civilized People: Colonial Points of Contact

4. The Blessing of Peace: Demobilization

5. Land and Interest in the Gaelic Atlantic World

6. The Soldier and Highland Culture

Conclusion

Appendix: The Highland Regiments, 1739-1784

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

9780300213508

OCLC:

910553810