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Titolo: The Scottish Clearances
Condizione: Nuovo
EAN: 9780141985930
ISBN: 9780141985930
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Formato: Tascabile
Data di pubblicazione: 30/05/2019
Altezza: 198mm
Lunghezza: 129mm
Larghezza: 21mm
Peso: 352g
Autore: T. M. Devine
Lingua: inglese
Subtítulos: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600-1900
ISBN-10: 0141985933
Description:

'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.

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