Governing gaeldom : : the Scottish Highlands and the restoration state, 1660-1688 / / by Allan Kennedy.

• Superior document: Northern World, Volume 66
• VerfasserIn: Kennedy, Allan
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Northern world ; Volume 66.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (418 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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 andamp; 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. The volume has been awarded the Frank Watson Book Prize for 2015. For more details see: https://www.uoguelph.ca/scottish/frank_watson This title is shortlisted for the Saltire Society 2014 History Book of the Year Award. For more details see: http://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/awards/literature/literary-awards/scottish-history-book-of-the-year/2014-history-book-shortlist/

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Allan Kennedy -- Introduction / Allan Kennedy -- 1 The Highlands in Britain / Allan Kennedy -- 2 The Nature of the Highland Problem / Allan Kennedy -- 3 The Highlands and the ‘Fiscal-Military’ State / Allan Kennedy -- 4 The Restoration Settlement in the Highlands / Allan Kennedy -- 5 Engagement and Containment, 1660–78 / Allan Kennedy -- 6 Reaction and Realignment, 1678–88 / Allan Kennedy -- Conclusion / Allan Kennedy -- Appendix 1 / Allan Kennedy -- Appendix 2 / Allan Kennedy -- Appendix 3 / Allan Kennedy -- Appendix 4 / Allan Kennedy -- Bibliography / Allan Kennedy -- Index / Allan Kennedy.