Reveals the importance of social networks and identities to defining Highland Scots' engagements with Empire and its lasting legacies A central, reliable and readable reference point for study of a topic that will interest a wide range of scholars and the reading public internationally Individual chapters that will suit individual specialisms, while still being accessible to readers from other disciplines/professions Innovative and topical commentaries which are highly readable, provocative and agenda-setting Important (re)considerations of neglected and/or understudied perspectives and areas of scholarship, presenting new histories of understudied social groups or situations and new insight on social networks and entanglements as a key aspect of Empire Interdisciplinary editorial team with track record of delivering edited volumes International material to allow comparison and contextualisation and broaden readerships This is a book about the social in Highland entanglements with Empire the networks, relationships and identities that made it possible for Highland Scots to access the Empire and its benefits. It explores from a range of perspectives the impact that these Scots had, as sojourners and settlers, on the different places they encountered. It is also a book about the present-day legacies of their engagements with Empire, and of the ongoing process of forging social and cultural identities with Highland roots. The volume presents rigorous and insightful new research from both well-established and early career scholars, accompanied by commentary on the research and the issues it raises from a range of academic and non-academic voices. The book represents a significant contribution our understanding of the role of Highland Scots, influenced significantly by their culture and language, in creating the Empire and its legacies. It advances knowledge of just how diverse the impacts of Highland Scots were on forging landscapes and lifescapes across the Atlantic, and how their exposure to the colonial world influenced and reshaped their Diasporic identities. While the British Empire was a collaboration of diverse interests, this book will shed light on one important interest: the Highland one.

About the Author
S. Karly Kehoe is Professor of History and Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Communities at Saint Mary's University in Nova Scotia. Prior to coming to Saint Mary's, she lived and worked in Scotland. She is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of the Global Young Academy and the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, and an alumna of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Young Academy of Scotland. Her work concentrates on Scottish and Irish Catholic settlement and colonisation in the north Atlantic, but she is also interested in sustainable development and rural change in Nova Scotia and the Scottish Highlands.INHERIT: the Institute for Heritage & Sustainable Human Development.Dr Chris Dalglish is a Director of INHERIT: the Institute for Heritage & Sustainable Human Development. His PhD was about the recent history of communities and landscapes in the Scottish Highlands, and he continues to research people's changing relationships with their land and places. He has a particular research interest in matters of ethics and justice concerning people and their relationships with heritage, land and landscape. INHERIT supports community development through cultural heritage. Working around the world, the Institute provides practical help to communities, carries out purposeful research and advocates evidence-based policy change. It is part of a UK-based charity, the York Archaeological Trust.Annie Tindley is Professor of British and Irish Rural History at Newcastle University and Head of the School of History, Classics & Archaeology. Her work interrogates land issues in the modern period including ownership, management and reform. In 2015 she established and became the first director of the Centre for Scotland's Land Futures, an inter-institutional and interdisciplinary research centre, and is the series editor for Scotland's Land, an interdisciplinary book series published by Edinburgh University Press. She is the author of The Sutherland Estate, 1850-1920 (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), and Lachlan Grant of Ballachulish, 1871-1945 (co-edited with Ewen A. Cameron, Birlinn, 2015).

Reviews
"This important volume illustrates the complex entanglements between power, identity and belonging embedded in multiple historical social networks informing the Scottish Highlands' uneasy relationship with the Atlantic World. Its thematic focus on land, language and networks of (dis)empowerment is an invaluable contribution to contemporary policy discourses in Scotland and elsewhere. " -Calum MacLeod, Sustainable Development Consultant and Policy Analyst



Book Information
ISBN 9781474494304
Author S Karly Kehoe
Format Hardback
Page Count 224
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press