Rev. James Fraser, 1634-1709: A New Perspective on the Scottish Highlands Before Culloden

This book studies the revealing autobiographical sources left by Rev. James Fraser of Kirkhill ({PHONE}), a Gaelic-speaking scholar, traveler, and minister. It examines Fraser's self-presentation and situates him within his locality, Scotland, the British Isles, and Europe, also incorporating recent historiography to provide a more comprehensive presentation of the social, economic, and cultural trajectories of the early modern Highlands.

Format: Hardback
Length: 248 pages
Publication date: 31 January 2023
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Reveals the Scottish Highlands as a dynamic and intellectual region in the century before Culloden
Challenges the assumption that the Highlands comprised a vacuum,sealed off from the rest of Scotland and the world beyond prior to the eighteenth century
Situates Fraser within his locality,his region,country,archipelago and continent in a way unparalleled by any other contemporary example
Examines the self-presentation and self-curation of an energetic,curious,mobile Gaelic-speaking man
This book studies the revealing autobiographical sources left by Rev. James Fraser of Kirkhill ({PHONE}), a Gaelic-speaking scholar, traveler, and minister. It examines Fraser's self-presentation and situates him within his locality, Scotland, the British Isles, and Europe, also incorporating recent historiography to provide a more comprehensive presentation of the social, economic, and cultural trajectories of the early modern Highlands.
David Worthington focuses on the Scottish Highlands' strong engagement with Europe and early entanglement with empire. He challenges the assumption that the north Highlands, in particular, was sealed off from the rest of the world before Culloden and he identifies the agency, vitality, and resilience of the people of the Highlands prior to the peripheralization, depopulation, and under-development that then occurred.

Weight: 434g
Dimension: 241 x 161 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399501279