Scotland And The British Army 1700 1750

Author : Victoria Henshaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472505224

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Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750 by Victoria Henshaw Pdf

The wholesale assimilation of Scots into the British Army is largely associated with the recruitment of Highlanders during and after the Seven Years War. This important new study demonstrates that the assimilation of Lowland and Highland Scots into the British Army was a salient feature of its history in the first half of the 18th century and was already well advanced by the outbreak of the Seven Years War. Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750 analyses the wider policing functions of the British Army, the role of Scotland's militia and the development of Scotland's military roads and institutions to provide a fuller understanding of the purpose and complexity of Scotland's military organisation and presence in Scotland in the turbulent decades between the Glorious Revolution and the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie, which has been too often simplified as an army of occupation for the suppression of Jacobitism. Instead, Victoria Henshaw reveals the complexities and difficulties experienced by Scottish soldiers of all ranks in the British Army as nationality, loyalty and prejudice clouded Scottish desires to use military service to defend the Glorious Revolution and the Union of 1707.

Author : Archibald K. Murray
Publisher : Glasgow, T. Murray and son
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600080536

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History of the Scottish Regiments in the British Army by Archibald K. Murray Pdf

Author : Dobson David
Publisher : Clearfield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 080635917X

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Scottish Soldiers in Europe and America, 1600-1700 by Dobson David Pdf

David Dobson is the foremost Scottish historian on Scottish emigration to Europe, colonial North America, and the Caribbean. This work traces Scottish soldiers who emigrated to various European countries and to the North American colonies in the 17th century.

Author : Victoria Henshaw
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472514899

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Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750 by Victoria Henshaw Pdf

The wholesale assimilation of Scots into the British Army is largely associated with the recruitment of Highlanders during and after the Seven Years War. This important new study demonstrates that the assimilation of Lowland and Highland Scots into the British Army was a salient feature of its history in the first half of the 18th century and was already well advanced by the outbreak of the Seven Years War. Scotland and the British Army, 1700-1750 analyses the wider policing functions of the British Army, the role of Scotland's militia and the development of Scotland's military roads and institutions to provide a fuller understanding of the purpose and complexity of Scotland's military organisation and presence in Scotland in the turbulent decades between the Glorious Revolution and the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie, which has been too often simplified as an army of occupation for the suppression of Jacobitism. Instead, Victoria Henshaw reveals the complexities and difficulties experienced by Scottish soldiers of all ranks in the British Army as nationality, loyalty and prejudice clouded Scottish desires to use military service to defend the Glorious Revolution and the Union of 1707.

Author : David Forsyth
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474402743

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Global Force by David Forsyth Pdf

This volume emerged from an international research colloquium jointly organised by National Museums Scotland and the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies, University of Edinburgh, funded by the Scottish Government and administered by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Historians and museum curators from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa were invited to join with their Scottish counterparts to consider the functioning, and the meaning, of 'military Scottishness' in different Commonwealth countries and in Britain from the late Victorian period to the present day, with a particular focus on the impact of the First World War. Another key objective was to throw light on the 'hidden' culture of social networking which potentially operated behind local regiments and military units amongst Scotland's global diaspora. This edited collection provides a comparative overview of the nineteenth century emergence of military Scottishness and explores how the construction and performance of Scottish military identity has evolved in different Commonwealth countries over the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In particular, it looks at the ways in which Scottish volunteer regiments in Commonwealth countries variously sought to draw upon, align themselves with or, at certain key moments, redefine the assertions of martial identity which Highland regiments represented.

Author : Hannah Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192592996

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Armies and Political Change in Britain, 1660-1750 by Hannah Smith Pdf

Armies and Political Change in Britain, 1660 -1750 argues that armies had a profound impact on the major political events of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Britain. Beginning with the controversial creation of a permanent army to protect the restored Stuart monarchy, this original and important study examines how armies defended or destroyed regimes during the Exclusion Crisis, Monmouth's Rebellion, the Revolution of 1688-1689, and the Jacobite rebellions and plots of the post-1714 period, including the '15 and '45. Hannah Smith explores the political ideas of 'common soldiers' and army officers and analyses their political engagements in a divisive, partisan world. The threat or hope of military intervention into politics preoccupied the era. Would a monarch employ the army to circumvent parliament and annihilate Protestantism? Might the army determine the succession to the throne? Could an ambitious general use armed force to achieve supreme political power? These questions troubled successive generations of men and women as the British army developed into a lasting and costly component of the state, and emerged as a highly successful fighting force during the War of the Spanish Succession. Armies and Political Change in Britain, 1660 - 1750 deploys an innovative periodization to explore significant continuities and developments across the reigns of seven monarchs spanning almost a century. Using a vivid and extensive array of archival, literary, and artistic material, the volume presents a striking new perspective on the political and military history of Britain.

Author : Aaron Graham,Patrick Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317039846

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The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660-c.1783 by Aaron Graham,Patrick Walsh Pdf

The concept of the 'fiscal-military state', popularised by John Brewer in 1989, has become familiar, even commonplace, to many historians of eighteenth-century England. Yet even at the time of its publication the book caused controversy, and the essays in this volume demonstrate how recent work on fiscal structures, military and naval contractors, on parallel developments in Scotland and Ireland, and on the wider political context, has challenged the fundamentals of this model in increasingly sophisticated and nuanced ways. Beginning with a historiographical introduction that places The Sinews of Power and subsequent work on the fiscal-military state within its wider contexts, and a commentary by John Brewer that responds to the questions raised by this work, the chapters in this volume explore topics as varied as finance and revenue, the interaction of the state with society, the relations between the military and its contractors, and even the utility of the concept of the fiscal-military state. It concludes with an afterword by Professor Stephen Conway, situating the essays in comparative contexts, and highlighting potential avenues for future research. Taken as a whole, this volume offers challenging and imaginative new perspectives on the fiscal-military structures that underpinned the development of modern European states from the eighteenth century onwards.

Author : Daniel Szechi
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300111002

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1715 by Daniel Szechi Pdf

Lacking the romantic imagery of the 1745 uprising of supporters of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 has received far less attention from scholars. Yet the ’15, just eight years after the union of England and Scotland, was in fact a more significant threat to the British state. This book is the first thorough account of the Jacobite rebellion that might have killed the Act of Union in its infancy. Drawing on a substantial range of fresh primary resources in England, Scotland, and France, Daniel Szechi analyzes not only large and dramatic moments of the rebellion but also the smaller risings that took place throughout Scotland and northern England. He examines the complex reasons that led some men to rebel and others to stay at home, and he reappraises the economic, religious, social, and political circumstances that precipitated a Jacobite rising. Shedding new light on the inner world of the Jacobites, Szechi reveals the surprising significance of their widely supported but ultimately doomed rebellion.

Author : C.C. Bayley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773592377

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Mercenaries for the Crimea by C.C. Bayley Pdf

Author : Henrietta Lidchi,Stuart Allan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 1526139200

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Dividing the Spoils by Henrietta Lidchi,Stuart Allan Pdf

As museums across Europe reckon with the post-colonial legacies of their collections, this volume combines approaches from material anthropology, imperial and military history to shed light on the acquisition and appropriation of objects during British colonial warfare. The authors offer a nuanced view of how the amassing of objects was governed and understood within military culture.

Author : Margot Finn,Kate Smith
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787350274

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The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 by Margot Finn,Kate Smith Pdf

The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the community of family historians and universities. It moves beyond conventional academic narratives and makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around how empire impacted Britain. The volume focuses on the propertied families of the East India Company at the height of Company rule. From the Battle of Plassey in 1757 to the outbreak of the Indian Uprising in 1857, objects, people and wealth flowed to Britain from Asia. As men in Company service increasingly shifted their activities from trade to military expansion and political administration, a new population of civil servants, army officers, surveyors and surgeons journeyed to India to make their fortunes. These Company men and their families acquired wealth, tastes and identities in India, which travelled home with them to Britain. Their stories, the biographies of their Indian possessions and the narratives of the stately homes in Britain that came to house them, frame our explorations of imperial culture and its British legacies.

Author : T C Smout
Publisher : Proceedings of the British Aca
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0197263305

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Anglo-Scottish Relations from 1603 to 1900 by T C Smout Pdf

In 1603, England and Scotland came together and Great Britain was created. But how did this union last when so many others in Europe have failed? This volume provides an account of two nations who have often differed, remained very distinct and yet have achieved endurance in European terms.

Author : S. Cordery
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230598041

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British Friendly Societies, 1750-1914 by S. Cordery Pdf

The first monograph on this topic since 1961, this book provides an innovative interpretation of the Friendly Societies in Britain from the perspectives on social, gender and political history. It establishes the central role of the Friendly Societies in the political activism of British workers, changing understandings of masculinity and femininity, the ritualised expression of social tensions and the origins of the welfare state.

Author : Robert K. Wright
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UCR:31210006490294

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The Continental Army by Robert K. Wright Pdf

A narrative analysis of the complex evolution of the Continental Army, with the lineages of the 177 individual units that comprised the Army, and fourteen charts depicting regimental organization.

Author : Christopher A Whatley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748680290

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Scots and the Union by Christopher A Whatley Pdf

This book traces the background to the Treaty of Union of 1707, explains why it happened and assesses its impact on Scottish society, including the bitter struggle with the Jacobites for acceptance of the union in the two decades that followed its inaugur