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.
Autorentext
T. M. Devine is Personal Senior Research Professor of History and Director of the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies at the University of Edinburgh
Inhalt
1. Clanship2. Jacobitism and the '453. The transformation of Gaeldom4. The final phase of clearance5. Revolution in landownership6. The making of Highlandism, 174618227. The social impact of protestant evangelicalism8. The language of the Gael9. Peasant enterprise: illicit whisky-making, 1760184010. The migrant tradition11. The great hunger12. A century of emigration13. After the famine14. Patterns of popular resistance and the Crofter's War, 1790188615. The intervention of the state16. Diaspora: Highland migrants in the Scottish cityIndex