The fatal land :: war, empire, and the highland soldier in British America /

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...

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1. Verfasser: Dziennik, Matthew P., 1984- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2015]
Schriftenreihe:Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xv, 297 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780300213508
0300213506

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