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Were the Highlands Politically unstable 1660 - 1700

Ewan J. Innes, MA(Hons Scot. Hist.) FSA Scot

© 1991

Synopsis:  This essay describes the political situation in the Highlands during the late seventeenth century and the internal and external conflicts and influences that shaped the nature of politics in the Highlands.

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Hopkins, P. Glencoe and the end of the Highland war (1986)
Kermack, W.R. The Scottish Highlands: a short history (1957)
Lenman, B. The Jacobite risings in Britain, 1689-1746 (1980)
Lynch M. Scotland A new History (1991)
Stevenson, D. Alasdair MacColla and the Highland problem in the seventeenth century (1980)

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