History, 1600-1800
Increasingly after 1603, the unified monarchy of England and Scotland viewed the Highlands with suspicion, disdain, and then anger. After 1688 and the exile of the Stuarts from Britain, the HIghlands -- rightly or not -- were seen as the center of Jacobite enthusiasm. In 1715 and 1745, Jacobite uprisings provoked a determined attack upon the traditions of this region, and the emerging British monarchy pulled the Highlands, kicking and screaming, into the mainstream.
