Highlanders: Unlocking Identity Through History

by James MacKillop

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476693129
• ISBN13: 9781476693125
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.9"