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MacCoinnich, Aonghas, Plantation and civility in the North Atlantic world: the case of the northern Hebrides, 1570–1639, The Northern World, 71, Boston, Leiden: Brill, 2015.

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MacCoinnich (Aonghas)

Work

Plantation and civility in the North Atlantic world: the case of the northern Hebrides, 1570–1639

Place

Boston • Leiden

Publisher

Brill

Year

2015

Series

The Northern World 71

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Abstract (cited)

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 background of a Lowland-Highland cultural divide and competition over resources. The Macleod of Lewis clan, ‘uncivil’, Gaelic Highlanders, were dispossessed by the Lowland, ‘civil,’ Fife Adventurers, 1598-1609. Despite the collapse of this Lowland Plantation, however, the recourse to the Mackenzie clan, often thought a failure of policy, was instead a pragmatic response to an intractable problem. The Mackenzies also pursued the civility agenda treating with Dutch partners and fending off their English rivals in order to develop their plantation.

Comments

Chapters: The conditions for plantation: the Scottish context pre 1598 (1–29); The lordship of the Macleods of Lewis (30–90); The Fife adventurers and the plantation of Lewis, 1598–1609 (91–175); The Mackenzies and their plantation of Lewis (176–257); The Mackenzie and the Dutch, 1628–1631 (258–289); The English in the Isles and the British Fishery Company (290–335); Conclusion (336–363); Appendices (365–510).

Subjects and topics

Headings

Hebrides Scotland 16th century 17th century

History, society and culture

Agents

Clann ChoinnichClann Choinnich

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Keywords

plantations