Clanship to Crofters' War: The Social Transformation of the Scottish Highlands

by T.M. Devine

Book Overview

Received to wide acclaim when first published in the 1990s, this absorbing book remains one of the most important, influential and widely read histories of the Scottish Highlands from the end of the Jacobite Risings to the great crofters' rebellion of the 1880s.

T. M. Devine argues that the Highlands in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the wholesale transformation of a society at a pace without parallel anywhere else in western...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719090768
• ISBN13: 9780719090769
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"