1st Edition

Scottish Loyalism in the British Atlantic World

Edited By Katie Louise McCullough, Graeme Morton Copyright 2025
166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

Using recent work on loyalism in Britain, Ireland, and the British Atlantic as a foundation, this book offers a pioneering exploration of Scottish loyalism and explores the many ways in which Scottish loyalists shaped the British Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Scots have yet to be examined as a particular ethnic group in the context of loyalism in the British... Read more

Preface

Katie Louise McCullough and Graeme Morton

 

Introduction: Scottish loyalism in the British Atlantic world

Katie Louise McCullough and Graeme Morton

 

1. “All grand tories”: Loyalism in the trans-Appalachian west during the revolutionary war

Matthew C. Ward

 

2. “Without the smallest recompense”: Scottish loyalist women in revolutionary North Carolina

K. B. Sherman

 

3. The law of loyalism: The Campbell family, the Court of Session, and the price of loyalty in the Revolutionary Atlantic World

James P. Ambuske

 

4. Inculcating loyalty in the Highlands and beyond, c.1745–1784

Nicola Martin

 

5. The Glengarry Cairn and Highland loyalism in the British Atlantic world

Katie Louise McCullough

 

6. Loyalism, legitimism, and the neo-Jacobite challenge to the Anglo-Scottish Union

Graeme Morton

 

Conclusion – The loud silence: Scottish loyalism in the British Atlantic world

Katie Louise McCullough and Graeme Morton

 

 

Biography

Katie Louise McCullough is the former Director for the Centre for Scottish Studies (2015–2020) and Shadbolt Fellow in the Humanities (2015–2020) at Simon Fraser University. Her forthcoming co-authored monograph, Mohawks and Scots in Early Canada, will be published by Edinburgh University Press.

Graeme Morton is Professor of Modern History at the University of Dundee. He has written or edited a dozen books, including Unionist-Nationalism: Governing Urban Scotland, 1830–1860 (1999), Ourselves and Others: Scotland 1832–1914 (2012), The Scottish Diaspora (2013), William Wallace: A National Tale (2014), and Weather, Migration and the Scottish Diaspora: Leaving the Cold Country (2021).