Abstract
This article will explore the connections between the long war against Rev olutionary and Napoleonic France and the development of the 'cult of tartanry' in early nineteenth-century Scotland. Work on the Highland tra dition has noted the compatibility of this form of cultural patriotism with Scottish loyalty to the Union and Scottish participation in the British im perial state.1 On the other hand, the influence of the 'cult of tartanry' has been diminished by the view that it was merely cultural and never seriously nationalistic. No attempt will be made here to argue that Highlandism amounted to a coherent form of nationalism because it did not.2 But a
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