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    From the Highlands to the Caribbean

    Oct 10, 2020 4 minutes
    Edited by Dr Martha McGill

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    Lord Seaforth: Highland Landowner, Caribbean Governor

    Finlay McKichan

    Edinburgh University Press, 2018 320 pages

    Hardcover £80.00 / paperback £14.99

    ISBN: 9781474438483

    Finlay McKichan’s biography of Francis Humberston Mackenzie, lord Seaforth (1754-1815), not only provides valuable insights into the life of the subject himself, but also contributes to our wider understanding of how actions and policies implemented in the highlands could be utilised and adapted throughout the British empire. The book is based on significant archival research and McKichan demonstrates substantial engagement with the historiography of the highland clearances, the Caribbean, and Scotland’s involvement with the British empire, making an important

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