Clanship to Crofters' War: The Social Transformation of the Scottish Highlands

by T.M. Devine

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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.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0719034825

ISBN13:9780719034824

Release Date:August 1994

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Length:200 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

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England Europe Historical Study & Educational Resources History Ireland Military Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Scotland Social History Social Science Social Sciences World

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