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Author: J.M. Bumsted
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Published: 1982-01-15
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0887550657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a revisionist account of Highland Scottish emigration to what is now Canada, in the formative half century before Waterloo.
Author: J.M. Bumsted
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Published: 1982-01-15
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0887553826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a revisionist account of Highland Scottish emigration to what is now Canada, in the formative half century before Waterloo.
Author: Chris Bambery
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2014-06-17
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1781682844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA People’s History of Scotland looks beyond the kings and queens, the battles and bloody defeats of the past. It captures the history that matters today, stories of freedom fighters, suffragettes, the workers of Red Clydeside, and the hardship and protest of the treacherous Thatcher era. With riveting storytelling, Chris Bambery recounts the struggles for nationhood. He charts the lives of Scots who changed the world, as well as those who fought for the cause of ordinary people at home, from the poets Robbie Burns and Hugh MacDiarmid to campaigners such as John Maclean and Helen Crawfurd. This is a passionate cry for more than just independence but also for a nation based on social justice.
Author: Eric Richards
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-08-05
Total Pages: 467
ISBN-13: 1000082431
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1985, A History of the Highland Clearances: Volume 2 explores the various types of communal and intellectual responses, contemporary and retrospective, to the experience of the clearances. The first section considers the legacy of the two hundred years’ debate about the Highland problem and the place of the clearances therein. The second section assesses the scale, range and timing of the emigrations of the Highlanders, as well as some of the motivations. The third section contemplates the direct popular response to the clearances, the collective memory and the tradition of physical resistance. The fourth section is about the career, trial and reputation of Patrick Sellar, which together embodied much of the social history, ruling ideas, and the necessary mythology of the clearances. The final section considers the fundamental economic problem of the Highlands in the age of the clearances, and the moral and economic alternatives that faced the community, the landlords, and the nation.
Author: Eric Richards
Publisher: Birlinn
Published: 2012-11-05
Total Pages: 463
ISBN-13: 0857905244
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Highland Clearances stands out as one of the most emotive chapters in the history of Scotland. This book traces the origins of the Clearances from the eighteenth century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s. In considering both the terrible suffering of the Highland people as well as the stark choices that faced landowners during a period of rapid economic change, it shows how the Clearances were one of many 'attempted' solutions to the problem of how to maintain a population on marginal and infertile land, and were, in fact, part of a wider European movement of rural depopulation. In drawing attention away from the mythology to the hard facts of what actually happened, The Highland Clearances offers a balanced analysis of events which created a terrible scar on the Highland and Gaelic imagination.
Author: Marianne McLean
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780773511569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMcLean works in the manuscript division of the National Archives of Canada, and draws extensively on unpublished sources to present a new interpretation of Scottish migration to Canada. Showing how the traditional clan society in western Inverness was disrupted by capitalism, she documents the emigration of nine coherent groups and their attempts to recreate Highland culture in Glengarry County in Ontario. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: James Cameron
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9780773513853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn For The People James Cameron charts the institutional development of St Francis Xavier University from 1853 to 1970 and illustrates how the college has become an integral part of the region's history and culture through its tradition of service to the people of eastern Nova Scotia on both the mainland and Cape Breton Island.
Author: Eric Richards
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2007-07-12
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0748629580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStorm clouds always gather over the story of the Highland Clearances. The eviction of the Highlanders from the glens and straths of the Highlands and Islands of the north of Scotland still causes great historical dispute more than a century after the events. The Highland Clearances also generated a great deal of contemporary controversy and documentation. The record comes in diverse forms and with radically different provenances, offering excellent material for exercises in historical analysis and selection. Debating the Highland Clearances introduces the Highland Clearances as a classic historical problem. Eric Richards reviews the historical debate and examines the methods and sources employed by the combatants past and present. The debates among historians, novelists, politicians and economists are no less passionate today and raise major questions about interpretation and the appropriate frame of reference for the noisy and continuing public debate about the Highland Clearances. This book prese
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Taylor
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Published: 2022-08-04
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1788855221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBadenoch today is a landscape of empty glens and ruined settlements, but it was not always so. This book examines the transformative events that shaped the region's destiny: climate and market forces, hunger and relief measures, sheep farms and sporting estates, agricultural improvement and proprietorial greed, and the evolution of clanship. Although this is an intensely localised study, the dramatic nature of change is explored against the wider context of events not just across the Highlands, but also within the British state and its global empire. Badenoch's journey moves from the relative prosperity of the Napoleonic Wars into the terrible post-war destitution that devastated peasant, tacksman and Duke of Gordon alike. Estate reform and 'improvement' gradually brought a degree of economic and social stability, but inevitably resulted in depopulation as people were forced off the land to seek refuge in the impoverished 'planned villages' or to abandon their Gaelic homeland for life in the Lowlands. For those with the means, however, emigration provided lucrative opportunities unimaginable at home. Through extensive use of documentary evidence, much of it previously unseen, David Taylor paints an intimate portrait of the historically neglected region of Badenoch – one that provides a compelling new perspective on Highland history.
