Abstract
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.
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | Leiden |
Publisher | Brill Academic Publishers |
Number of pages | 320 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9789004269255 |
ISBN (Print) | 9789004248373 |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Publication series
Name | Northern World |
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Keywords
- Highlands
- Scotland
- British state formation
- centre-periphery interaction in early-modern Europe
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Kennedy, Allan
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