The highlands in Britain -- The nature of the Highland problem -- The Highlands and the 'fiscal-military' state -- The restoration settlement in the Highlands -- Engagement and containment, 1660-78 -- Reaction and realignment, 1678-88
Summary
In Governing Gaeldom, Allan Kennedy offers a fresh contribution to the literature of British state formation through a detailed reconstruction of the relationship between the Highlands and the Scottish government in the later seventeenth century