A Global Force: War, Identities and Scotland's Diaspora

ISBN-13: 9781474429306 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 240 str.

David Forsyth; Wendy Ugolini

Opis

This book explores the many ways in which a military Scottish identity was reinvented and forged overseas amongst Scotland's diaspora from the late nineteenth century to the present day. It provides case studies from North America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Spis treści

List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Foreword,Thomas M Devine; Introduction: A Global Force: War, Identities and Scotland’s Diaspora, David Forsyth and Wendy Ugolini; Part 1; 1. Military Scotland in the age of proto-globalisation, c.1690 to c.1815, Andrew Mackillop; 2. Forging Nationhood: Scottish imperial identity and the construction of nationhood in the Dominions, 1880-1914, Edward Spiers; 3. The Scottish Soldier and Scotland 1914-1918, Hew Strachan; Part 2; 4. Performing Scottishness in England: forming and dressing the London Scottish Volunteer Rifles; Stuart Allan; 5. Canada, Military Scottishness, and the First World War, Jeff Noakes; 6. “A military fervour akin to religious fanaticism”: Scottish military identity in the Australian Imperial Force, Craig Tibbitts; 7. South Africa and Scotland in the First World War, Jonathan Hyslop; 8. Ngāti Tūmatauenga and the Kilties: New Zealand’s ethnic military Traditions, Seán Brosnahan; 9. Scottish Ethnic Associationalism, Military Identity and Diaspora Connections in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries, Tanja Bueltmann; Notes on Contributors, Notes on Contributors.