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Field Marshal Alexander Leslie was the highest ranking commander
from the British Isles to serve in the Thirty Years' War. Though
Leslie's life provides the thread that runs through this work, the
authors use his story to explore the impacts of the Thirty Years'
War, the British Civil Wars and the age of Military Revolution.
Field Marshal Alexander Leslie was the highest ranking commander
from the British Isles to serve in the Thirty Years' War. Though
Leslie's life provides the thread that runs through this work, the
authors use his story to explore the impacts of the Thirty Years'
War, the British civil wars, and the age of military revolution.
Provides for a historical perspective of Scotland's interaction
with the world beyond its borders. As one of the most prolific
historians of his generation, Allan I. Macinnes, Emeritus Professor
of History at the University of Strathclyde, has been foremost in
promoting an international rather than insular approach to the
study of Scotland. In a distinguished career he has written
extensively on the Scottish Highlands, the British revolutions, the
formation of the United Kingdom, the Jacobite movement, and
Scottish involvement in the British Empire. The chapters collected
here reflect the extent of these interests and a commitment to
understanding Scotland - or indeed, other territorial units - in an
international or global context. Covering a period from the
sixteenth to the nineteenth century, essays examine the complex
interaction of the peoples of the British and Irish isles; they
consider Scottish participation in Britannic and European conflict;
and they explore Scottish involvement in business networks,
political unions, and maritime empires. From intellectual and
cultural exchange to political and military upheaval, Scotland and
the Wider World will be key reading for anyone interested in the
antecedents to Scotland's current international standing.
An academic but accessible study of espionage and its impact, this
is the first in a series of studies in early modern European
history edited by leading historians.
This volume examines the impact of military activity upon
Scotland's national identity as the country underwent a fundamental
transition through domestic centralisation at the turn of the
seventeenth century, integration into the United Kingdom in 1707,
and as a partner in Britain's global empire during the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries. It is divided into three thematic
sections that examine the evolution of Scottish military identity
over the early modern period, how the Highland region moved from a
relationship of hostility to the Lowland political authorities to
the central element in eighteenth and ninteenth century Scottish
soldiering, and, finally, how aspects of Scotland's civilian
society interrelated with her soldiers.
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