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'The People Are Not There'

- The Transformation of Badenoch 1800–1863
Af: David Taylor Engelsk Paperback

'The People Are Not There'

- The Transformation of Badenoch 1800–1863
Af: David Taylor Engelsk Paperback
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Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year AwardBadenoch today is a landscape of empty glens and ruined settlements, but it was not always so. This book examines the transformative events that shaped the region’s destiny: climate and market forces, hunger and relief measures, sheep farms and sporting estates, agricultural improvement and proprietorial greed, and the evolution of clanship. Although this is an intensely localised study, the dramatic nature of change is explored against the wider context of events not just across the Highlands, but also within the British state and its global empire.Badenoch’s journey moves from the relative prosperity of the Napoleonic Wars into the terrible post-war destitution that devastated peasant, tacksman and Duke of Gordon alike. Estate reform and ‘improvement’ gradually brought a degree of economic and social stability, but inevitably resulted in depopulation as people were forced off the land to seek refuge in the impoverished ‘planned villages’ or to abandon their Gaelic homeland for life in the Lowlands. For those with the means, however, emigration provided lucrative opportunities unimaginable at home.Through extensive use of documentary evidence, much of it previously unseen, David Taylor paints an intimate portrait of the historically neglected region of Badenoch – one that provides a compelling new perspective on Highland history.
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Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year AwardBadenoch today is a landscape of empty glens and ruined settlements, but it was not always so. This book examines the transformative events that shaped the region’s destiny: climate and market forces, hunger and relief measures, sheep farms and sporting estates, agricultural improvement and proprietorial greed, and the evolution of clanship. Although this is an intensely localised study, the dramatic nature of change is explored against the wider context of events not just across the Highlands, but also within the British state and its global empire.Badenoch’s journey moves from the relative prosperity of the Napoleonic Wars into the terrible post-war destitution that devastated peasant, tacksman and Duke of Gordon alike. Estate reform and ‘improvement’ gradually brought a degree of economic and social stability, but inevitably resulted in depopulation as people were forced off the land to seek refuge in the impoverished ‘planned villages’ or to abandon their Gaelic homeland for life in the Lowlands. For those with the means, however, emigration provided lucrative opportunities unimaginable at home.Through extensive use of documentary evidence, much of it previously unseen, David Taylor paints an intimate portrait of the historically neglected region of Badenoch – one that provides a compelling new perspective on Highland history.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 448
ISBN-13: 9781910900987
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1910900982
Kategori: Scotland
Udg. Dato: 15 jun 2023
Længde: 30mm
Bredde: 236mm
Højde: 154mm
Forlag: John Donald Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato: 15 jun 2023
Forfatter(e): David Taylor
Forfatter(e) David Taylor

Kategori Scotland

ISBN-13 9781910900987

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 448

Udgave

Længde 30mm

Bredde 236mm

Højde 154mm

Udg. Dato 15 jun 2023

Oplagsdato 15 jun 2023

Forlag John Donald Publishers Ltd

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