
- 304 pages
- English
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The Making of the Crofting Community
About this book
This book has been seminal in bringing to the fore the injustices that have been inflicted on the Highlands in the name of government and landlord – injustices often lost in the name of dry statistics and academic balance.Written by a man who has gone on to become both an award-winning historian of the Highlands and a leading figure in the public life of the region, The Making of the Crofting Communityhas attracted praise, inspired debate, and provoked outrage and controversy over the years. This book remains necessary to challenge standard academic interpretations of the Highland past. Having long been one of the classics of Birlinn's John Donald list, this revised and updated new edition includes a substantial new preface and an extensive reworking of the existing text.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface to the 2000 Edition
- Introduction
- 1 The End of an Old Order
- 2 The Origins of Crofting
- 3 A Redundant Population
- 4 Famine
- 5 Fewer People, Less Land
- 6 The Emergence of the Crofting Community
- 7 Years of Rcovery
- 8 The Highland Land War: Beginnings
- 9 The Highland Land War: Is Treasa Tuath na Tighearna
- 10 The Highland Land War: Coercion and Conciliation
- 11 Land Raids and Land Settlement
- Conclusion
- The Land for the People: Postscript to the 2010 Edition
- Index
- Plates