Northern Scotland Volume 8, Issue 1

by Macdonald, Alastair J; MacPherson, Jim

• ISBN13: 9781474424370
• ISBN10: 1474424376
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-06-01
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Summary

Northern Scotland is an established scholarly journal that has been in existence since 1972. It is a fully peer-reviewed publication whose editorial board, contributors, reviewers and referees are drawn from a wide range of experts across the world. While it carries material of a mainly historical nature, from the earliest times to the modern era, it is a cross-disciplinary publication, which also addresses cultural, economic, political and geographical themes relating to the Highlands and Islands and the north-east of Scotland. This issue looks at a wide range of topics, including satire, the Highland clearances, Alexander Mackenzie and diaspora. Combining a range of articles from a variety of experts, this issue seeks to explore the history and culture of northern Scotland.

Author Biography

Alastair Macdonald is Mackie Lecturer in History at the University of Aberdeen.

Jim MacPherson is Programme Leader for MLitt British Studies, Postgraduate Research Co-Ordinator and Lecturer in History at The Centre for History, University of the Highlands and Islands.

Table of Contents

ARTICLES

Ellen L. Beard, Satire and Social Change: The Bard, the Schoolmaster and the Drover

Iain MacKinnon, Colonialism and the Highland Clearances

Marjory Harper, 'Quite destitute and ... very desirous of going to North America': The Roots and Repercussions of Emigration from Sutherland and Caithness

Ben Thomas, 'The Clach': Alexander Mackenzie and the Land Question in the Late-Nineteenth Century Highlands and Islands


REVIEW ESSAY

D. A. J. MacPherson, The Scots Abroad: Recent Approaches to Migration, Diaspora and Identity