Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Notes on the Contributors ix
6. Foreword xi
7. Introduction: Scottish Highlands and the Atlantic World: Social Networks and Identities 1
8. PART ONE Land
9. 1 ‘I prefer to establish myself in my own colony’: The Translation of Aristocratic Thinking on Land and Governance between Highland Scotland and Atlantic Canada, c. 1803–1910 15
10. 2 Tripped up by Tartan: Settler Colonialism and the Highland Scots on Cape Breton Island 31
11. PART TWO Language and Culture
12. 3 Gaelic Heritage, Language Revitalisation and Identity in Present-day Nova Scotia 47
13. 4 ‘Drochaid eadar mis’ agus mo dhùthaich’ [‘A bridge between me and my country’]: Transatlantic Networks and the Nineteenth-century Gaelic Periodical Press 71
14. 5 The Scottish Highlands and Warfare in the British Atlantic World, c. 1740–1815 91
15. PART THREE Networks of Empowerment and Oppression
16. 6 Christian Robertson (1780–1842) and a Highland Network in the Caribbean: A Study of Complicity 115
17. 7 The Gaelic Club of Glasgow: Gateway from the Scottish Highlands to the British Atlantic World, 1780–1838 148
18. 8 Family, Society and Highland Identity in an Industrial World 170
19. Epilogue: Contested Boundaries – Documenting the Socio-cultural Dimensions of Empire 195
20. Index 200