The Scottish Clearances - A History of the Dispossessed, 1600-1900

Eighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world. But there was in the same period another side to the history of the nation. Many of Scotland's people were subjected to coercive and sometimes violent change: traditional and customary relationships were overturned and replaced by the 'rational' exploitation of land use. The Scottish Clearances is a superb and highly original account of this sometimes terrible process, which changed the Lowland countryside forever, as it also did, more infamously, the old society of the Highlands. Based on an extensive use of original sources, this pioneering book is the first to chart this tumultuous saga in one volume, with due attention to evictions and loss of land in both north and south of the Highland line. In the process, old myths are exploded and familiar assumptions undermined. With many fascinating details and the sense of an epic human story, The Scottish Clearances is an evocative memorial to all whose lives were irreparably changed in the interests of economic efficiency.

Product details

• Authors: T M Devine, T. M. Devine, Devine T. M.
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780141985930
• ISBN: 978-0-14-198593-0
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 194 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, c 1500 onwards to present day, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, History: specific events and topics, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Northern Scotland, Highlands & Islands, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Northern Scotland, Highlands and Islands