Author: John Macleod
Publisher: Hodder Headline
Keywords: gaels, history, highlanders
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 1997-03-01
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0340639911
ISBN-13: 9780340639917

In this sweeping chronicle, award-winning journalist John Macleod offers an insider’s view of the Scottish Highlands, from the Stone Age to the present day. In this illuminating, wonderfully readable study, John Macleod unfolds the history of the land and people of the Scottish Highlands. From Mesolithic man, through the Celts, the Vikings, and the Lords of the Isles to the Stuart monarch, Macleod examines the terrible events following Culloden and the forced emigrations, the Evangelical Movement, and the Crofter’s War. Bringing the story right up to date, he looks

Author: Colin G. Calloway
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: people, scotland, america, encounters, tribal, indians, highlanders, colonial
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2008-07-03
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0195340124
ISBN-13: 9780195340129

In nineteenth century paintings, the proud Indian warrior and the Scottish Highland chief appear in similar ways--colorful and wild, righteous and warlike, the last of their kind. Earlier accounts depict both as barbarians, lacking in culture and in need of civilization. By the nineteenth century, intermarriage and cultural contact between the two--described during the Seven Years’ War as cousins--was such that Cree, Mohawk, Cherokee, and Salish were often spoken with Gaelic accents.In this imaginative work of imperial and tribal history, Colin Calloway examines why these two seemingly w