In this Book

summary

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 Europe.

This is an important book for all those interested in the history of the Scottish Highlands and Islands, and for students and scholars of Scottish history, social history and rural society.

Table of Contents

restricted access Download Full Book
  1. Cover
  2. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Contents
  2. p. v
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. List of colour plates
  2. p. vi
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. List of figures
  2. pp. vii-viii
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. List of maps
  2. pp. ix-x
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Preface
  2. p. xi
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Acknowledgements
  2. pp. xii-xiv
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 1. Clanship
  2. pp. 1-18
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 2. Jacobitism and the ‘45
  2. pp. 19-31
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 3. The transformation of Gaeldom
  2. pp. 32-53
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 4. The final phase of clearance
  2. pp. 54-62
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 5. Revolution in landownership
  2. pp. 63-83
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 6. The making of Highlandism, 1746–1822
  2. pp. 84-99
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 7. The social impact of protestant evangelicalism
  2. pp. 100-109
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 8. The language of the Gael
  2. pp. 110-118
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 9. Peasant enterprise: Illicit whisky-making, 1760–1840
  2. pp. 119-134
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 10. The migrant tradition
  2. pp. 135-145
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 11. The great hunger
  2. pp. 146-176
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 12. A century of emigration
  2. pp. 177-191
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 13. After the famine
  2. pp. 192-208
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 14. Patterns of popular resistance and the Crofters’ War,1790–1886
  2. pp. 209-227
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 15. The intervention of the state
  2. pp. 228-240
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 16. Diaspora: Highland migrants in the Scottish city
  2. pp. 241-250
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Index
  2. pp. 251-258
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Image Plates
  2. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
Back To Top

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Without cookies your experience may not be seamless.