Fighting for Identity: Scottish Military Experiences c.1550-1900

by Steve Murdoch (Editor), Andrew MacKillop (Editor)

Overview

This volume examines the impact of military activity upon Scotland's national identity as the country underwent a fundamental transition through domestic centralisation at the turn of the seventeenth century, integration into the United Kingdom in 1707, and as a partner in Britain's global empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is divided into three thematic sections that examine the evolution of Scottish military identity over the early modern period, how the Highland region moved from a relationship of hostility to the Lowland political authorities to the central element in eighteenth and ninteenth century Scottish soldiering, and, finally, how aspects of Scotland's civilian society interrelated with her soldiers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789004128231
Publisher:	Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	09/12/2002
Series:	History of Warfare Series , #15
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Steve Murdoch, Ph.D. (1998) in British-Scandinavian History, University of Aberdeen, lectures in Scottish History at the University of St Andrews. He recently published Britain, Denmark-Norway and the House of Stuart 1603-1660: A Diplomatic and Military Analysis (East Linton, 2000) and edited Scotland and the Thirty Years' War 1618-1648 (Leiden, 2001).

Andrew Mackillop, Ph.D. (1996) in Scottish History, University of Glasgow, is a Lecturer in History at the University of Aberdeen. He recently published 'More Fruitful than the Soil': Army, Empire and the Scottish Highlands, 1715-1815 (East Linton, 2001).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Foreword / Arthur Williamson
Acknowledgements

Introduction / Steve Murdoch, Andrew Mackillop

1. James VI and the formation of a Scottish-British Military Identity / Steve Murdoch
2. Beating the Odds: Alexander Leslie's 1640 Campaign in England / Edward Furgol
3. Royalist soldiers and Cromwellian allies? The Cranstoun Regiment in Sweden 1656-1658 / Alexia Grosjean
4. The End of the Scots-Dutch Brigade / Joachim Migglebrink
5. 'Tac see ourselves as ithers see us': Scottish Military Identity from the Covenant to Victoria 1637-1837 / Dauvit Horsbroch
6. 'His spirit was given only to warre': Conflict and Identity in the Scottish Gaidhealtachd c. 1580-c. 1630 / Aonghas MacCoinnich
7. Crisis of Identity? Clan Chattan's response to government policy in the Scottish Highlands c. 1580-1609 / Alison Cathcart
8. For King, Country and Regiment? Motive and Identity in Highland Soldiering 1746-1815 / Andrew Mackillop
9. Identity in the Highland Regiments in the Nineteenth Century: Soldier, Region, Nation / Heather Streets
10. Arming and Equipping the Covenanting Armies 1638-1651 / Peter Edwards
11. The press and military conflict in early modern Scotland / Alasdair Mann

Glossary of Scots and Scottish Gaelic Terms / Dauvit Horsbroch
Index

Editorial Reviews

"...a useful and valuable collection of essays..." – John Childs, in: Scottish Economic & Social History, 2002
"…a step formward in the methodology of writing military history…" – Mark C. Fissel, in: The Journal of Military History, 2005
"Fighting for Identity "presents important new findings and successfully establishes identity as a key issue for military historiography. The volume should be of great interest to Scottish scholars and to historians of early modern Britain." – Brian Sandberg, in: The Sixteenth Century Journal, XXXV/4 (2004)

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