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The Highland Clearances
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BookSource Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35248881
EAN: 9781780273846
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Beschreibung
The Highland Clearances reveals how emigrant hardship and landowner choices reshaped Highland life amid economic upheaval. The 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.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Richards Eric
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2016
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 512