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In Echoes of Success, Ian Stuart Kelly uses new information about late Victorian Scottish Highland battalions to provide new insights into how groups identify themselves, and pass that sense on to successive generations of soldiers. Kelly applies concepts from organisational theory (the study of how organisations function) to demonstrate how soldiers' experiences create a 'blueprint' of expected behaviours and thought patterns that contribute to their battalion's continued success. This model manages the interplay between public perception and actual life experiences more effectively than current approaches to understanding identity. Also, Kelly's primary research offers a more certain description of soldiers' life, faith, education, and discipline than has previously been available.

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...Drawing on a breadth of unpublished material located in regimental museums as well as the British National Archives, the reader follows the Scots 'pedigree of organized violence' through to the closing years of the nineteenth century...as a study of the men who became Highlanders due to their service in these regiments, Echoes of Success rewards the reader with fresh insight grounded in detailed research. Wayne E. Sirmon in The Journal of Military History, April 2016, pp. 566-68

...Drawing on a breadth of unpublished material located in regimental museums as well as the British National Archives, the reader follows the Scots 'pedigree of organized violence' through to the closing years of the nineteenth century....as a study of the men who became Highlanders due to their service in these regiments, Echoes of Success rewards the reader with fresh insight grounded in detailed research. Wayne E. Sirmon in The Journal of Military History, April 2016, pp. 566-68

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Ian Stuart Kelly, Ph.D. (2007, University of Aberdeen) is a historian for the Gordon Highlanders Museum. He has presented at military history conferences in North America and Europe, and has contributed to multiple world history projects.

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