The fatal land : war, empire, and the highland soldier in British America / Matthew P. Dziennik.

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Dziennik, Matthew P, 1984- [author.]

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TextSeries: Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and historyPublisher: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (xv, 297 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780300213508
0300213506

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fatal landDDC classification:

355.0089/9163073 23

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UA664 .D98 2015eb

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Contents:

A perfect purgatory: recruitment in the Scottish highlands -- Spirited martialists: the highlander as military laborer -- The same as other civilized people: colonial points of contact -- The blessing of peace: demobilization -- Land and interest in the Gaelic Atlantic world -- The soldier and highland culture.

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.

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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.

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