The Making Of The Crofting Community

Author : James Hunter
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857902863

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The Making of the Crofting Community by James Hunter Pdf

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 Community has 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.

Author : Allan W. MacColl
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780748626748

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Land, Faith and the Crofting Community by Allan W. MacColl Pdf

This book probes the deep-rooted links between the land, the people and the religious culture of the Scottish Highlands and Islands in the nineteenth century. The responses of the clergy to the social crisis which enveloped the region have often been characterised as a mixture of callous indifference, cowering deference or fatalistic passivity. Allan MacColl's pioneering research challenges such stereotypical representations of Highland ministers head-on. Land, Faith and the Crofting Community is the first full-scale examination of Christian social teaching in the nineteenth-century Gaidhealtachd and addresses a major gap in the historical understanding of Gaelic society. Seeking to lay bare the existing myths by a wide-ranging analysis of all the denominational, theological and social factors at play, this study boldly overturns the received scholarly and popular interpretations. A ground-breaking work, it explores a substantial but under-utilised field of evidence and questions whether or not Highland Christians "e; both clergy and laity "e; were committed to land reform as an engine of social improvement and conciliation. The Christian contribution to the development of a distinctively Highland identity "e; which found expression during the Crofters' War of the 1880s "e; is delineated, while wider links between theology and social philosophy are examined from beyond the perspective of the Highlands.

Author : David Turnock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351886123

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The Making of the Scottish Rural Landscape by David Turnock Pdf

This book looks at the evolution of rural settlement in Scotland from the Mesolithic period through to the improving movement of the 18th and 19th centuries. The main emphasis is on changes in society and technology, but the book also considers how the development of the physical landscape laid the foundation for such changes. The author strikes a balance between general perspectives (including relevant contextual materials such as the political structures) and local studies, with much emphasis on individual sites. Lack of documentation prior to the 10th century places particular importance on the archaeological evidence, but imaginative interpretation of this evidence has led to a major re-evaluation. Ideas emphasizing continuity of settlement and local adaptation are replacing older ’invasionist’ theories emphasizing Celtic war lords and broch-building pirates.

Author : John Irvine Little
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0773508074

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Crofters and Habitants by John Irvine Little Pdf

In Crofters and Habitants, J.I. Little examines the ways in which two highly distinct social groups -- Gælic-speaking crofters from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides and French-speaking habitants from south of Quebec City -- adapted to a common physical environment in the rugged Appalachian plateau of south-eastern Quebec.

Author : Thomas Martin Devine
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Michael Lynch
Publisher : Random House
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446475638

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Scotland by Michael Lynch Pdf

From Bannockburn and Robert the Bruce to the union of the crowns and Mary, Queen of Scots; from the Reformation and John Knox, to the Enlightenment and the Highland Clearances, and right up to devolution, Scotland is the definitive history of a country that has experienced centuries of dramatic change. Michael Lynch, named as 'one of the most influential historians in Scotland of the last thirty years', has penned an extraordinary one-volume history of the country that spans twenty centuries, from the Picts to the present day. Thrilling, comprehensive, provocative and timely, Scotland is a monumental work of scholarship.

Author : Charles W J Withers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317332800

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Gaelic Scotland by Charles W J Withers Pdf

This book, originally published in 1988, examines the Highlands and Islands of Scotland over several centuries and charts their cultural transformation from a separate region into one where the processes of anglicisation have largely succeeded. It analyses the many aspects of change including the policies of successive governments, the decline of the Gaelic language, the depressing of much of the population into peasantry and the clearances.

Author : Giulia Sajeva
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-08-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781040116593

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Rights for Ecosystem Services by Giulia Sajeva Pdf

This book analyses how protecting the rights of local communities can contribute to the alleviation of ecological harms through the development of an innovative 'Rights for Ecosystem Services' framework. Ecosystem services describe the range of social, ecological, and economic benefits that people obtain from nature. Recognising the role of local communities, and criticizing the very use of the term services, this book draws on arguments for the rights of nature. Against a market approach to nature conservation it thereby transforms the current 'Payments for Ecosystem Services' framework into a unique 'Rights for Ecosystem Services' framework. With reference to a case study from Sicily, the book develops such a framework as a crucial means through which the environmental role of local communities can be recognised, protected, and fostered. Employing insights from a range of disciplines, this book will appeal to scholars working in the areas of environmental law, legal theory, political philosophy, human rights, and environmental studies, as well as others with practical concerns in the fields of conservation science and local communities' rights.

Author : Brian Jenkins
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773560055

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Irish Nationalism and the British State by Brian Jenkins Pdf

The emergence of revolutionary Irish nationalism in the mid-nineteenth century.

Author : Andrew Duff
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857902450

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Sikkim by Andrew Duff Pdf

This is the true story of Sikkim, a tiny Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas that survived the end of the British Empire only to be annexed by India in 1975.It tells the remarkable tale of Thondup Namgyal, the last King of Sikkim, and his American wife, Hope Cooke, thrust unwittingly into the spotlight as they sought support for Sikkim's independence after their 'fairytale' wedding in 1963. As tensions between India and China spilled over into war in the Himalayas, Sikkim became a pawn in the Cold War in Asia during the 1960s and 1970s. Rumours circulated that Hope was a CIA spy. Meanwhile, a shadowy Scottish adventuress, the Kazini of Chakung, married to Sikkim's leading political figure, coordinated opposition to the Palace. As the world's major powers jostled for regional supremacy during the early 1970s Sikkim and its ruling family never stood a chance. On the eve of declaring an Emergency across India, Indira Gandhi outwitted everyone to bring down the curtain on the 300 year-old Namgyal dynasty. Based on interviews and archive research, as well as a retracing of a journey the author's grandfather made in 1922, this is a thrilling, romantic and informative glimpse of a real-life Shangri-La.

Author : J.M. Bumsted
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1982-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887550652

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The People's Clearance by J.M. Bumsted Pdf

This is a revisionist account of Highland Scottish emigration to what is now Canada, in the formative half century before Waterloo.

Author : Anthony Paul Cohen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0719022010

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Symbolising Boundaries by Anthony Paul Cohen Pdf

Author : Annie Tindley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748642670

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Sutherland Estate, 1850-1920 by Annie Tindley Pdf

From the mid-nineteenth century until the end of World War I, the Sutherland Estate was the largest landed estate in western Europe; at 1.1 million acres, the ducal family owned almost the entire county of Sutherland as well as a further 30,000 acres in England. The estate was owned by the dukes of Sutherland, who were among the richest patrician landowners of the period; from the early nineteenth century, however, the family were shadowed by their reputation as great clearance landlords, something that would come back to haunt them throughout the coming decades

Author : Iain J.M. Robertson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317108030

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Landscapes of Protest in the Scottish Highlands after 1914 by Iain J.M. Robertson Pdf

In November 1918, the implementation of agrarian change in the Scottish Highlands threatened another wave of unemployment and eviction for the land-working population, which led to widespread and varied social protest. Those who had been away on war service (and their families) faced returning to exactly the same social and economic conditions in the Scottish Highlands they had hoped they had left behind in the struggle to make ’a land fit for heroes’. Widespread and varied social protest rapidly followed. It argues that, previously, there has been a failure to capture fully the geography, chronology typology and rate of occurrence of these events. The book not only offers new insights and a greater understanding of what was happening in the Highlands in this period, but illustrates how a range of forms of protest were used which demand attention, not least for the fact that these events, unlike most of the earlier Land Wars period, were successful. There are functioning townships in the Highlands today that owe their existence to the land invasions of the 1920s. The book innovatively concentrates on formulating explanation and interpretation from within and looks to the crofting landscape as base, means and motive to disturbance and interpretation. It proposes that protest is much more convincingly understood as an expression of environmental ethics from 'the bottom up' coming increasingly into conflict with conservationist views expressed from 'the top down' It focuses on individual case studies in order to engage more convincingly with an important evidential base - that of popular memory of land disturbances - and to adopt a frame and lens through which to explore the fluid and contingent nature of protest performances. Based upon the belief that in the study of landscapes of social protest the old shibboleth of space as solely passive setting and symbolic register is no longer tenable is paid here to nature/culture interactions, to vernacular ecological b

Author : Marianne McLean
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0773511563

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The People of Glengarry by Marianne McLean Pdf

McLean works in the manuscript division of the National Archives of Canada, and draws extensively on unpublished sources to present a new interpretation of Scottish migration to Canada. Showing how the traditional clan society in western Inverness was disrupted by capitalism, she documents the emigration of nine coherent groups and their attempts to recreate Highland culture in Glengarry County in Ontario. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR