Plantation and Civility in the North Atlantic World: The Case of the Northern Hebrides, 1570-1639

• Main Author: MacCoinnich, Aonghas
• Format: Book
• Language: unknown
• Published: Brill 2015
• Subjects: CB History of civilization; D204 Modern History; D901 Europe (General); DA Great Britain; DJ Netherlands (Holland); HC Economic History and Conditions; JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration; PB1501 Scottish Gaelic Language; Macleod; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/110714/

The settlement of the Hebrides is usually considered in terms of the state formation agenda. Yet the area was subject to successive attempts at plantation, largely overlooked in historical narrative. Aonghas MacCoinnich’s study, Plantation and Civility, explores these plantations against the backgro...