Governing Gaeldom

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-24837-3
Verlag: de Gruyter Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 66, 404 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 771 g

Reihe: The Northern World

Conventional accounts of the Scottish Highlands tend to assume that they remained detached from the mainstream of British affairs until well into the eighteenth century. In Governing Gaeldom, Allan Kennedy challenges this perception through detailed analysis of the relationship between the Highlands and the Scottish state during the reigns of Charles II and James VII & II.
Drawing upon a wide range of sources, Kennedy traces the political, social, ecclesiastical and economic linkages between centre and periphery, demonstrating that the Highlands were much more tightly integrated than hitherto assumed. At the same time, he reconstructs the development of Highland policy, placing it within its proper context of the absolutist pretensions of the late-Stuart monarchy. The result is a thorough reinterpretation which offers fresh insights into the process of state-formation in early-modern Britain.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kennedy, Allan D

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements…viii
List of Tables, Figure and Illustrations …ix
Abbreviations and Notes… xi
Maps… xii

Introduction …1

PART One: Centre and Periphery …15
1 The Highlands in Britain …17
2 The Nature of the Highland Problem …66
3 The Highlands and the ‘Fiscal-Military’ State …112

PART Two: The Development of Policy …147
4 The Restoration Settlement in the Highlands …149
5 Engagement and Containment, 1660–78 …180
6 Reaction and Realignment, 1678–88 …213

Conclusion …251
Appendices …256
Bibliography …361
Index …386

Über Autor(innen)

Allan Kennedy gained his Ph.D. from the University of Stirling in 2012. He is the author of several articles on aspects of medieval and early-modern Scotland, and is currently Research Associate in British/Scottish History at the University of Manchester.