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Clanship to crofters' war : the social transformation of the Scottish Highlands

Title
Clanship to crofters' war : the social transformation of the Scottish Highlands / T.M. Devine.
Author
Devine, T. M. (Thomas Martin)
Publication
Manchester [England] ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Description
viii, 258 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Subject
  • Highlands (Scotland) > History
  • Highlands (Scotland) > Social conditions
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Clanship -- 2. Jacobitism and the '45 -- 3. The transformation of Gaeldom -- 4. The final phase of clearance -- 5. Revolution in landownership -- 6. The making of Highlandism, 1746-1822 -- 7. The social impact of protestant evangelicalism -- 8. The language of the Gael -- 9. Peasant enterprise: illicit whisky-making, 1760-1840 -- 10. The migrant tradition -- 11. The great hunger -- 12. A century of emigration -- 13. After the famine -- 14. Patterns of popular resistance and the Crofters' War, 1790-1886 -- 15. The intervention of the state -- 16. Diaspora: Highland migrants in the Scottish city.
ISBN
  • 0719034817 (hardback)
  • 0719034825 (paperback)
LCCN
93030886
OCLC
  • 28586117
  • ocm28586117
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries