A01=Matthew P. Dziennik
Author_Matthew P. Dziennik
Category=JWCD
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Category=NHW
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Product details
- ISBN 9780300196726
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 14 Aug 2015
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Born and raised in the Scottish Highlands, Matthew P. Dziennik is currently a fellow at the University of Saskatchewan.
