An edition of Wild Scots: a history of the Highlands
(2005)
Wild Scots
four hundred years of Highland history
Book Club Edition.
by Fry, Michael
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Wild Scots: four hundred years of Highland history
2005, John Murray
in English
- Book Club Edition.
0739484524 9780739484524
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Table of Contents
Bang it out bravely : the union of the crowns, 1603-1625
Jesus and no quarter : civil war, 1625-1660
Powerless before the Campbells : restoration and revolution, 1660-1692
I am no stranger to misfortune : the Jacobite rising of 1715
The little fire! : Highland Calvinism in the eighteenth century
Run, you cowardly Italian! : the Jacobite rising of 1745
Like so many infuriated demons : Highlands in the empire, to 1776
Love Scotland better than truth : Gaelic culture after 1745
A nation no longer : improvement and emigration, to 1776
Seats of oppression : eviction and development, to 1800
The rage of improvements : eviction and development, to 1830
Very vulgar and gaudy : the revival of Highland culture
"I'm proud of my country" : the Disruption of 1843
One prolonged note of desolation : eviction and development, 1830-1885
Don't live starving where you are : contested culture, 1850-1885
The great grievance : the Crofters Act, 1886
Fancy dreams : the crofting system, 1900-1945
A golden wine : modern Highland culture
A great outdoor laboratory : economic revival, 1945-1999
The land's for the people : the Highlands under devolution
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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