Author: Highland Emigration Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Report of the Highland Emigration Society, from Its Formation in April 1852, Until April 1853
Author: Highland Emigration Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Report of the Highland Emigration Society from its formation in April 1852 until April 1853
Author: A History of the Highland Clearances
Author: Eric RichardsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000082431
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
First published in 1985, A History of the Highland Clearances: Volume 2 explores the various types of communal and intellectual responses, contemporary and retrospective, to the experience of the clearances. The first section considers the legacy of the two hundred years’ debate about the Highland problem and the place of the clearances therein. The second section assesses the scale, range and timing of the emigrations of the Highlanders, as well as some of the motivations. The third section contemplates the direct popular response to the clearances, the collective memory and the tradition of physical resistance. The fourth section is about the career, trial and reputation of Patrick Sellar, which together embodied much of the social history, ruling ideas, and the necessary mythology of the clearances. The final section considers the fundamental economic problem of the Highlands in the age of the clearances, and the moral and economic alternatives that faced the community, the landlords, and the nation.
Report
Author: Pennsylvania. Commissioners of the sinking fundPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates (finished by Jon. A. Hjaltalin, and T. H. Jamieson)
Author: Samuel HalkettThe Naked Clansmen on Mull & Iona 1700 - 1860
Author: Ian McPheePublisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1838591486
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
At the start of the1700s the life of Scottish clansmen was settled compared to the past. This book describes how Clan families lived simple lives in primitive homes. The Battle of Culloden in 1746 changed Scotland forever. Clansmen were now subject to English justice, prohibited from wearing traditional clothing and carrying weapons. Clan chiefs morphed into hard-nosed landlords and ordinary clansmen faced a different and difficult future, with challenges never experienced by their forefathers. Land reform and the introduction of sheep displaced Gaelic Scots, who had to either live elsewhere, become crofters or emigrate. The development of crofting communities dependant on growing potatoes, and the lives of the people who lived in them, is an essential part of this book. While focused on Mull and Iona, it is a fascinating story about the hardship that tenants experienced throughout Scotland. Disease that decimated potato crops in 1846, caused famine, starvation and great poverty. People lost their livelihoods and were evicted from their homes. Evictions, starvation and government policy led to an upsurge in emigration. Until economic conditions improved during the Crimean War, emigration played a key role in the salvation of a starving population.
Selections from Educational Records
Author: National Archives of IndiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Gazetteer of the State of New York
Author: John Homer FrenchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Reports from the Court of Claims Submitted to the House of Representatives
Author: United States. Court of ClaimsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Author: