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More than 12,000 soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland were recruited to serve in Great Britain's colonies in the Americas in the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century. In this compelling history, Matthew P. Dziennik corrects the mythologized image of the Highland soldier as a noble savage, a primitive if courageous relic of clanship, revealing instead how the Gaels used their military service to further their own interests and, in doing so, transformed the most maligned region of the British Isles into an important center of the British Empire

More than 12,000 soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland were recruited to serve in Great Britain's colonies in the Americas in the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century. In this compelling history, Matthew P. Dziennik corrects the mythologized image of the Highland soldier as a noble savage, a primitive if courageous relic of clanship, revealing instead how the Gaels used their military service to further their own interests and, in doing so, transformed the most maligned region of the British Isles into an important center of the British Empire.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- H. T. Dickinson: An Appreciation -- Introduction -- Part I. Parliament and Political Cultures -- 1. 'The Press Ought to be Open to All': From the Liberty of Conscience to the Liberty of the Press -- 2. 'Could the Scots Become True British?' The Prelude to the Scottish Peerage Bill, 1706-16 -- 3. Parliament and Church Reform: Off and On the Agenda -- 4. Liberty, Property and the Post-Culloden Acts of Parliament in the Gàidhealtachd -- 5. Political Toasting in the Age of Revolutions: Britain, America and France, 1765-1800 -- Part II. Beyond Liberty and Property -- 6. Edmund Burke, Dissent and Church and State -- 7. 'The Wisest and Most Benefi cial Schemes': William Ogilvie, Radical Political Economy and the Scottish Enlightenment -- 8. Thomas Spence and James Harrington: A Case Study in Influence -- 9. Thomas Spence, Children's Literature and 'Learning . . . Debauched by Ambition' -- Part III. The Long and Wide 1790s -- 10. British Radical Attitudes towards the United States of America in the 1790s: The Case of William Winterbotham -- 11. Was there a Law of Sedition in Scotland? Baron David Hume's Analysis of the Scottish Sedition Trials of 1794 -- 12. The Vilifi cation of Thomas Paine: Constructing a Folk Devil in the 1790s -- 13. Nelson's Circles: Networking in the Navy during the French Wars -- 14. The Posthumous Lives of Thomas Muir -- Appendix: Selected List of H. T. Dickinson's Publications, 1964-2015 -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index