Governing Gaeldom: The Scottish Highlands and the Restoration State, 1660-1688 (The Northern World: North Europe and the Baltic C. 400-1700 A.D. Peoples, Economics and Cultures, 66)

Conventional accounts of the Scottish Highlands tend to assume that they remained detached from the mainstream of British affairs until well into the eighteenth century. In Governing Gaeldom, Allan Kennedy challenges this perception through detailed analysis of the relationship between the Highlands and the Scottish state during the reigns of Charles II and James VII & II. Drawing upon a wide range of sources, Kennedy traces the political, social, ecclesiastical and economic linkages between centre and periphery, demonstrating that the Highlands were much more tightly integrated than hitherto assumed. At the same time, he reconstructs the development of Highland policy, placing it within its proper context of the absolutist pretensions of the late-Stuart monarchy. The result is a thorough reinterpretation which offers fresh insights into the process of state-formation in early-modern Britain. Conventional accounts of the Scottish Highlands tend to assume that they remained detached from the mainstream of British affairs until well into the eighteenth century. In Governing Gaeldom, Allan Kennedy challenges this perception through detailed analysis of the relationship between the Highlands and the Scottish state during the reigns of Charles II and James VII & II.Drawing upon a wide range of sources, Kennedy traces the political, social, ecclesiastical and economic linkages between centre and periphery, demonstrating that the Highlands were much more tightly integrated than hitherto assumed. At the same time, he reconstructs the development of Highland policy, placing it within its proper context of the absolutist pretensions of the late-Stuart monarchy. The result is a thorough reinterpretation which offers fresh insights into the process of state-formation in early-modern Britain.The volume has been awarded the Frank Watson Book Prize for 2015. For more details see:https://www.uoguelph.ca/scottish/frank_watsonThis title is shortlisted for the Saltire Society 2014 History Book of the Year Award. For more details see:http://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/awards/literature/literary-awards/scottish-history-book-of-the-year/2014-history-book-shortlist/ Acknowledgements...viii List of Tables, Figure and Illustrations ...ix Abbreviations and Notes... xi Maps... xii Introduction ...1 PART One: Centre and Periphery ...15 1 The Highlands in Britain ...17 2 The Nature of the Highland Problem ...66 3 The Highlands and the ‘Fiscal-Military’ State ...112 PART Two: The Development of Policy ...147 4 The Restoration Settlement in the Highlands ...149 5 Engagement and Containment, 1660–78 ...180 6 Reaction and Realignment, 1678–88 ...213 Conclusion ...251 Appendices ...256 Bibliography ...361 Index ...386 The Highlands In Britain -- The Nature Of The Highland Problem -- The Highlands And The 'fiscal-military' State -- The Restoration Settlement In The Highlands -- Engagement And Containment, 1660-78 -- Reaction And Realignment, 1678-88. By Allan Kennedy. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 361-385) And Index. In Governing Gaeldom, Allan Kennedy offers a fresh contribution to the literature of British state formation through a detailed reconstruction of the relationship between the Highlands and the Scottish government in the later seventeenth century