Clanship to Crofters' War
The Social Transformation of the Scottish Highlands
Published on 1. January 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-7190-3482-4 (ISBN)
Description
Received to wide acclaim when first published in the 1990s, this absorbing book remains one of the most important, influential and widely read histories of the Scottish Highlands from the end of the Jacobite Risings to the great crofters' rebellion of the 1880s.
T. M. Devine argues that the Highlands in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the wholesale transformation of a society at a pace without parallel anywhere else in western Europe.
This is an important book for all those interested in the history of the Scottish Highlands and Islands, and for students and scholars of Scottish history, social history and rural society. -- .
T. M. Devine argues that the Highlands in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the wholesale transformation of a society at a pace without parallel anywhere else in western Europe.
This is an important book for all those interested in the history of the Scottish Highlands and Islands, and for students and scholars of Scottish history, social history and rural society. -- .
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-3482-4 (9780719034824)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Clanship; Jacobitism and the '45; the transformation of Gaeldom; the final phase of clearance; revolution in landownership; the making of Highlandism, 1746-1822; the social impact of Protestant evangelicalism; the language of the Gael; peasant enterprise - illicit whisky-making, 1760-1840; the migrant tradition; the great hunger; a century of emigration; after the famine; patterns of popular resistance and the Crofters' War, 1790-1886; the intervention of the state; diaspora - Highland migrants in the Scottish city.