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The Fatal Land
Matthew P. Dziennik
其他書名
War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America
出版Yale University Press, 2015-01-01
主題History / United States / GeneralHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Modern / 18th Century
ISBN03001967259780300196726
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vf_GCQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋More than 12,000 soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland were recruited to serve in Great Britain's colonies in the Americas in the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century. In this compelling history, Matthew P. Dziennik corrects the mythologized image of the Highland soldier as a noble savage, a primitive if courageous relic of clanship, revealing instead how the Gaels used their military service to further their own interests and, in doing so, transformed the most maligned region of the British Isles into an important center of the British Empire.