Highlanders

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Preface

delete deleteThe Limits of Genealogy

A Note on the Words "Celt" and "Celtic"

1.?The Foundations

delete deleteWhere Are the "Highlands"?

delete deletePeopling the Landscape

delete deletePrehistoric Testimony

delete deleteThe Scots/Gaels: Ethnogenesis

delete deleteThe Picts

delete deleteIreland and the Highlands

delete deleteThe Norse in the Highlands

delete deleteThe Scottish Gaelic Language

2.?Medieval Highlands and Islands

delete deleteThe Hammer of the Norse

delete deleteThe Lordship of the Isles

delete deleteThe Rise of the Clans

delete deleteEnumeration, Rivalries, an Alliance

delete deleteFeuds and Forays

3.?The Seventeenth Century

delete deleteOne King, Two Kingdoms

delete deleteWars of the Three Kingdoms, 1639-1651

delete deleteA "Bald" Poet

delete deleteDeparture of the Stuarts: The First Three Decades

4.?The Dreary Eighteenth Century

delete deleteHighland Society Before Culloden

delete deleteThe Jacobites, 1745-1746

delete deleteMisery and Emigration

5.?Romantic Amelioration

delete deleteImposture in Badenoch

delete deleteIndigenous Voices

delete deletePoetic Admirers from the Outside

delete deleteAbbotsford

delete deleteThe Sett That Expresses

delete deleteA Royal Patroness

delete deleteAway from Balmoral

6.?After Romance

delete deleteSheep Over People

delete deleteThe Blight of the Tubers

delete deleteThe Great Disruption of 1843

delete deleteMightier Than a Lord

delete deleteThe Comic Highlander

delete deleteSuas Leis a' Ghaidhlig

Coda: Known Up Close Then Seen from Afar

Glossary: Persons, Places, Vocabulary

Bibliography

Index