Culloden and the Last Clansman.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

James Hunter. Culloden and the Last Clansman. Edinburgh, U.K.: Mainstream Publishing; dist. by Trafalgar Square, No. Pomfret, Vt. 2002. Pp. 238. $29.95. ISBN 1-84018-483-3.

Despite their connection to the Stuart dynasty, the Stewarts of Appin were consistent losers in the struggle for power, land, and prestige in the early modern Highlands. The Campbells dispossessed them of their ancestral lands in Lorne and forced them north into Appin in the sixteenth century. In the mid-seventeenth century they joined Montrose and Alasdair Maccolla in their war against the Covenanting regime ...

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