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A Global Force - War, Identities and Scotland's Diaspora (Hardcover)
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A Global Force - War, Identities and Scotland's Diaspora (Hardcover)
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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.
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