The Lowland Clearances

Author : Peter Aitchison,Andrew Cassell
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857909671

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The Lowland Clearances by Peter Aitchison,Andrew Cassell Pdf

The forced removal of family farmers across the Scottish Lowlands in the 18th and 19th centuries is chronicled in this enlightening social history. The Scottish Agricultural Revolution came at great cost to the poor cottars and tenant farmers who were driven from their homes to make way for livestock and crops. The process of forced evictions through the Highlands known as the Highland Clearances is a well-documented episode of Scottish history. But the process actually began in the Scottish Lowlands nearly a century before—in the so-called Age of Improvement. Though largely overlook by historians, the Lowland Clearances undeniably shaped the Scottish landscape as it is today. They swept aside a traditional way of life, causing immense upheaval for rural dwellers, many of whom moved to the new towns and cities or left the country entirely. With pioneering research, historian Peter Aitchison tells the story of the Lowland Clearances, establishing them as a significant aspect of the Clearances that changed the face of Scotland forever.

Author : T. M. Devine
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141985947

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The Scottish Clearances by T. M. Devine Pdf

'A superb book ... Anybody interested in Scottish history needs to read it' Andrew Marr, Sunday Times 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, as traditional ways of life were overturned 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 a vast array 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. This is a story of forced clearance, of the destruction of entire communities and of large-scale emigration. Some winners were able to adapt and exploit the new opportunities, but there were also others who lost everything. The clearances created the landscape of Scotland today, but it came at a huge price.

Author : Peter Aitchison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Lowlands (Scotland)
ISBN : 0857903551

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The Lowland Clearances by Peter Aitchison Pdf

Author : Eric Richards
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857905246

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The Highland Clearances by Eric Richards Pdf

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.

Author : Krisztina Fenyő
Publisher : John Donald
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015053374826

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Contempt, Sympathy, and Romance by Krisztina Fenyő Pdf

"Through examination of various attitudes in the press, the author also presents the major issues debated in the newspapers relating to the Highlands, with some fascinating results: for example, land had already become a bone of contention, thirty years before the 1880s land reform movement." "Working within the previously unexplored field of newspaper materials in the mid-nineteenth century, Krisztina Fenyo shows the uniqueness, power and richness of these sources for the evaluation of the range of Scottish public opinion."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Alexander Mackenzie
Publisher : Mercat Press Books
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010402576

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The History of the Highland Clearances by Alexander Mackenzie Pdf

The tragedy of the Clearances, brought about by cynical, often absentee landlords, is a black page in Scotland's history. Written while the effects it describes were still unfolding, Mackenzie's history brings the distress before the reader.

Author : Tom M. Devine
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788854054

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Clearance and Improvement by Tom M. Devine Pdf

Social and economic changes included an increase in production of food and raw materials, in turn sustaining the remarkable growth of towns and cities over this period. However, in the folk memory of Scotland the social and cultural costs of the revolution loom much larger: the loss of land for many thousands of families; the rise of individualism and the decline of neighborhood; the death of old rural societies which had formed Scotland's character for many generations. The drama and tragedy of Highland history during this period have attracted many authors, whereas the Lowland experience, that of the majority of Scots, hardly any. This book attempts to redress that balance, and in so doing examines why this extraordinary era, inextricably associated with failure, famine and clearance in Gaeldom, is remembered as one of 'improvements' in the Lowlands, where the folk memory of dispossession, if it ever existed, is long lost in collective amnesia. In so doing, Devine addresses an issue which goes right to the heart of the nation's past.

Author : Peter Aitchison
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1862322406

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Children of the Sea by Peter Aitchison Pdf

One hundred and eighty-nine men drowned in a single afternoon in Scotland's worst fishing disaster. It is a forgotten part of the nation's past, yet it happened just a hundred and twenty years ago. It decimated the coastal community of Eyemouth where the effects of Black Friday are felt to this day. Children of the Sea is the remarkable story of a village on the margins of the sea and at the edge of the country. It is a tale of survival through the wars of independence and the witch-hunts of the seventeenth century; of danger and high jinks when Eyemouth was the centre of a massive smuggling ring; and above all of the hope and tragedy of fishing and of battles with the minister. It is a story of a people who fought to survive, and whose voice can now be heard, from tales handed down through the generations.

Author : Colin G. Calloway
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0199712891

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White People, Indians, and Highlanders by Colin G. Calloway Pdf

In nineteenth century paintings, the proud Indian warrior and the Scottish Highland chief appear in similar ways--colorful and wild, righteous and warlike, the last of their kind. Earlier accounts depict both as barbarians, lacking in culture and in need of civilization. By the nineteenth century, intermarriage and cultural contact between the two--described during the Seven Years' War as cousins--was such that Cree, Mohawk, Cherokee, and Salish were often spoken with Gaelic accents. In this imaginative work of imperial and tribal history, Colin Calloway examines why these two seemingly wildly disparate groups appear to have so much in common. Both Highland clans and Native American societies underwent parallel experiences on the peripheries of Britain's empire, and often encountered one another on the frontier. Indeed, Highlanders and American Indians fought, traded, and lived together. Both groups were treated as tribal peoples--remnants of a barbaric past--and eventually forced from their ancestral lands as their traditional food sources--cattle in the Highlands and bison on the Great Plains--were decimated to make way for livestock farming. In a familiar pattern, the cultures that conquered them would later romanticize the very ways of life they had destroyed. White People, Indians, and Highlanders illustrates how these groups alternately resisted and accommodated the cultural and economic assault of colonialism, before their eventual dispossession during the Highland Clearances and Indian Removals. What emerges is a finely-drawn portrait of how indigenous peoples with their own rich identities experienced cultural change, economic transformation, and demographic dislocation amidst the growing power of the British and American empires.

Author : Andrew MacKillop
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788853927

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More Fruitful Than the Soil by Andrew MacKillop Pdf

This book analyses the origins, development and impact of British Army recruiting in the Scottish Highlands in the period from 1739 to 1815. It examines the interaction of government, landlords and tenantry. Recruiting is analysed within the context of rapid socio-economic change. The emphasis is on tenant reactions to recruiting, and the study concludes that this was a vital factor in bringing about change in the tenurial structure in the region. Both the decline of the tacksman and the emergence of crofting are linked to the process of regiment raising. Military recruiting involved a clear recognition on the part of the Highland landlords and tenantry that the Empire and the 'fiscal military state' offered alternative sources of revenue. Both groups 'colonised' various levels of the state's military machine. As a result of this close involvement, the government remained a vital influence in the area well after 1745, and a major player in the region's economy. Recruiting was not simply a residue of clanship, rather it was a form of commercial activity, analogous to kelping.

Author : Neil M. Gunn
Publisher : Souvenir Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780285640030

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Butcher's Broom by Neil M. Gunn Pdf

Butcher's Broom is one of Gunn's epic recreations of a key period in Scottish history, the Highland clearances of the nineteenth century. Gunn captures the spirit of Highland culture, the sense of community and tradition, in a manner that speaks to our own time. At the centre of the novel is Dark Mairi who embodies what is most vital and lasting in mankind, whose values encapsulate what was lost in Scotland to make way for progress while her land was cleared to make way for wintering sheep. The weaving of traditional ballads with the lives of Gunn's characters evokes the community that must be destroyed. Elie lost among strangers with her fatherless child while Seonaid defies the invaders, fighting them from the roof of her croft. This is among the most moving of Gunn's works and establishes the belief in a transcendent spirituality that would be so dominant in his later work.

Author : Robert Allen Houston,Ian D. Whyte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521891671

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Scottish Society, 1500-1800 by Robert Allen Houston,Ian D. Whyte Pdf

The volume covers many of the most significant themes in pre-industrial Scottish society.

Author : Thomas Martin Devine
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
ISBN : 0719034817

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Clanship to Crofters' War by Thomas Martin Devine Pdf

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.

Author : Peter Aitchison
Publisher : Birlinn Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Eyemouth (Scotland)
ISBN : 1841584649

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Black Friday by Peter Aitchison Pdf

Originally published: as Children of the sea. East Linton: Tuckwell, 2001.

Author : Marjory Harper
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 071904927X

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Emigration from Scotland Between the Wars by Marjory Harper Pdf

Emigration from Scotland has always been very high. However, emigration from Scotland between the wars surpassed all records; more people emigrated than were born, leading to an overall population decline. Why was it so many people left?Marjory Harper, whose knowledge is grounded in a deep understanding of the local records, maps out the many factors which worked together to cause this massive diaspora. After an opening section where the author sets the Scottish experience within the context of the rest of the British Isles, the book then divides the country geographically, starting with the Highlands, then coastal Scotland, and the urban Lowland highlighting in turn the factors that particularly influenced each of these areas. Harper then discusses the organised religious and political movements that encouraged emigration. By interweaving personal stories with statistical evidence Harper brings to life the reality behind the dramatic historical migration.