The front cover of the book 'The Scottish Clearances' with an archive photo.

The Scottish Clearances (Hardback)

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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 '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 for ever, 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 both north and south of the Highland line. In the process, old myths are exploded and familiar assumptions undermined. With many fascinating details, The Scottish Clearances is an evocative memorial to all whose lives were irreparably changed in the interests of economic efficiency.

Hardback

15.5 x 24 cm


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