James Mackillop

Highlanders

Unlocking Identity Through History

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Produktbeschreibung

Rebellion was recurrent in the Highlands because the Gaels (Scoti) were an often-oppressed indigenous minority in the nation, Scotland, to which they gave their name. They spoke a language, Gaelic, few outsiders would learn, and had their own family and social system, the clans. Warfare was bloody, culminating in the catastrophe of Culloden Moor during the doomed quest to restore the Stuart kingship to all of Britain. Economic hardship, including the near-genocidal Clearances, in which tenant farmers were replaced with sheep, drove the Gaels from the glens and islands, so that most today live in the diaspora, including millions in North America. Although the Gaels lack a single genetic identity, they clearly draw from distinct roots in the Irish, Norse and Picts. Despite their hardship, the Gaels are also presented in romantic portrayals by the artistic elite of other nations. This book offers ways in which the reader might find roots and ancestry in unfamiliar terrain. Chapters discuss the landscape and language of the Highlanders, the rise of clans, feuds and invasions, and eventual emigration.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781476693125
• ISBN-10: 1476693129
• Artikelnr.: 69857806

Autorenporträt

James MacKillop is also a past president of ACIS and the author of The Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, Fionn mac Cumhaill: Celtic Myth in English Literature, and editor of Contemporary Irish Cinema: From "The Quiet Man" to "Dancing at Lughnasa," the last two volumes also published by Syracuse University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface delete deleteThe Limits of Genealogy A Note on the Words "Celt" and "Celtic" 1.
The Foundations delete deleteWhere Are the "Highlands"? delete deletePeopling the Landscape delete deletePrehistoric Testimony delete deleteThe Scots/Gaels: Ethnogenesis delete deleteThe Picts delete deleteIreland and the Highlands delete deleteThe Norse in the Highlands delete deleteThe Scottish Gaelic Language 2.
Medieval Highlands and Islands delete deleteThe Hammer of the Norse delete deleteThe Lordship of the Isles delete deleteThe Rise of the Clans delete deleteEnumeration, Rivalries, an Alliance delete deleteFeuds and Forays 3.
The Seventeenth Century delete deleteOne King, Two Kingdoms delete deleteWars of the Three Kingdoms, 1639-1651 delete deleteA "Bald" Poet delete deleteDeparture of the Stuarts: The First Three Decades 4.
The Dreary Eighteenth Century delete deleteHighland Society Before Culloden delete deleteThe Jacobites, 1745-1746 delete deleteMisery and Emigration 5.
Romantic Amelioration delete deleteImposture in Badenoch delete deleteIndigenous Voices delete deletePoetic Admirers from the Outside delete deleteAbbotsford delete deleteThe Sett That Expresses delete deleteA Royal Patroness delete deleteAway from Balmoral 6.
After Romance delete deleteSheep Over People delete deleteThe Blight of the Tubers delete deleteThe Great Disruption of 1843 delete deleteMightier Than a Lord delete deleteThe Comic Highlander delete deleteSuas Leis a' Ghàidhlig Coda: Known Up Close Then Seen from Afar Glossary: Persons, Places, Vocabulary Bibliography Index