Fighting for Identity: Scottish Military Experiences c.1550-1900 (History of warfare)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004128239 ISBN 13: 9789004128231

Publisher: Brill, 2002

This volume examines the impact of military activity upon Scotland's national identity as the country underwent a fundamental transition through domestic centralisation at the turn of the seventeenth century, integration into the United Kingdom in 1707, and as a partner in Britain's global empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is divided into three thematic sections that examine the evolution of Scottish military identity over the early modern period, how the Highland region moved from a relationship of hostility to the Lowland political authorities to the central element in eighteenth and ninteenth century Scottish soldiering, and, finally, how aspects of Scotland's civilian society interrelated with her soldiers.

Review:

"...a useful and valuable collection of essays..." - John Childs, in: Scottish Economic & Social History, 2002
"...a step formward in the methodology of writing military history..." - Mark C. Fissel, in: The Journal of Military History, 2005
"Fighting for Identity "presents important new findings and successfully establishes identity as a key issue for military historiography. The volume should be of great interest to Scottish scholars and to historians of early modern Britain." - Brian Sandberg, in: The Sixteenth Century Journal, XXXV/4 (2004)

About the Author:

Steve Murdoch, Ph.D. (1998) in British-Scandinavian History, University of Aberdeen, lectures in Scottish History at the University of St Andrews. He recently published Britain, Denmark-Norway and the House of Stuart 1603-1660: A Diplomatic and Military Analysis (East Linton, 2000) and edited Scotland and the Thirty Years' War 1618-1648 (Leiden, 2001). Andrew Mackillop, Ph.D. (1996) in Scottish History, University of Glasgow, is a Lecturer in History at the University of Aberdeen. He recently published 'More Fruitful than the Soil': Army, Empire and the Scottish Highlands, 1715-1815 (East Linton, 2001).