Echoes of Success : Identity and the Highland Regiments.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Tables and Figures -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Identity -- Warrior 'Races' -- The Question of 'Identity' -- The Drive for Identity -- Dual Natures of Identity -- Elements of Identity -- Chapter 2 -- Highland Battalions -- Establishment -- Divergent Paths -- Converging Paths -- Reform -- Reorganisation and Beyond -- Chapter 3 -- Highland Soldiers -- Regionality, Nationality and Migration -- Pre-Enlistment Experience -- Military Careers -- Chapter 4 -- Discipline and Military Law -- Military Law -- Military Crime -- Discipline in the Highland Battalions -- Chapter 5 -- Faith and the Army -- The Thin Black Line -- Personal Faith -- Public Practice -- Chapter 6 -- Education -- Pre-Enlistment Education -- Education within the Army -- Chapter 7 -- Narratives -- Language-based Communication -- Regimental Music -- Material Culture &amp -- Art -- The Drums &amp -- The Colours -- Chapter 8 -- In Garrison &amp -- On Campaign -- Pre-1881 Status -- The Reorganisation -- After the Reorganisation -- Chapter 9 -- Institutional Correlations -- Highland and Scottish Foundations -- Highland Battalions and the British State -- Highland Battalions and the Empire -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

In Echoes of Success, Ian Stuart Kelly describes how actual life experiences and public perception together shaped identity in the late Victorian Scottish Highland battalions.

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