More Fruitful than the Soil: Army, Empire and the Scottish Highlands, 1715 – 1815 by Andrew MacKillop

More Fruitful than the Soil: Army, Empire and the Scottish Highlands, 1715 – 1815

Andrew MacKillop

290 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history informative mysterious medium-paced
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"Military recruiting involved a clear recognition on the part of the Highland landlords and tenantry that the Empire and the 'fiscal military state' offered alternative sources of revenue. Both groups 'colonised' various levels of the state's mili...

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