Fatal Land: War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300196726)

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.

Author: Matthew P. Dziennik
ISBN-10: 0300196725
ISBN-13: 9780300196726
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2015
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2015