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

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David Worthington

Rev. James Fraser, 1634-1709

A New Perspective on the Scottish Highlands Before Culloden

David Worthington

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English

Edinburgh University Press
19 April 2023

Biography: historical, political & military; History; Historiography; General & world history; European history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700

This book studies the revealing autobiographical sources left by Rev. James Fraser of Kirkhill (16341709), a Gaelic-speaking scholar, traveller 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 peripheralisation, depopulation and under-development that then occurred.

By: David Worthington
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 449g
ISBN: 9781399501279
ISBN 10: 1399501275
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 19 April 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Worthington is Professor of Scottish History and the Head of the Centre for History at UHI, Scotland. He is the author of British and Irish Experiences and Impressions of Central Europe, 1560-1688 (Ashgate: Aldershot, 2012) and Scots in Habsburg Service, 1618-1648 (Brill: Leiden, 2003). He is also editor of The New Coastal History: Cultural and Environmental Perspectives from Scotland and Beyond (Palgrave MacMillan: London, 2017) and British and Irish Emigrants and Exiles in Europe, 1603-1688 (Brill: Leiden, 2009).

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

""Out of the seventeenth-century Highlands, often thought a place apart, steps a determinedly cosmopolitan individual. David Worthington's study of James Fraser Gael, linguist, scientist, historian, continent-wide traveller and locally rooted parish minister is a masterly portrayal of a well lived and productive Highland life."" -James Hunter, University of the Highlands and Islands