Clanship to Crofter's War: The Social Transformation of the Scottish Highlands
- ISBN-10
- 0719034817
- ISBN-13
- 9780719034817
- Category
- Highlands (Scotland)
- Pages
- 258
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Authors
- Thomas Martin Devine, Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography and Director of the Scottish Centre of Diaspora Studies T M Devine
Description
This work charts the story of the people of the Scottish Highlands from the 1745 Jacobite uprising to the great crofter's rebellion in the 1880s - a story of defeat, social dissolution, emigration, rebellion and cultural revival.
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