Clanship to Crofters War The social transformation of the Scottish Highlands [Paperback]

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.

1. Clanship

2. Jacobitism and the '45

3. The transformation of Gaeldom

4. The final phase of clearance

5. Revolution in landownership

6. The making of Highlandism, 1746-1822

7. The social impact of protestant evangelicalism

8. The language of the Gael

9. Peasant enterprise: illicit whisky-making, 1760-1840

10. The migrant tradition

11. The great hunger

12. A century of emigration

13. After the famine

14. Patterns of popular resistance and the Crofter's War, 1790-1886

15. The intervention of the state

16. Diaspora: Highland migrants in the Scottish city

Index

This is the most pathbreaking book in Highland history since Donald Gregory's appraisal of clanship originally published in the 1840s ... this outstanding work should be prescribed reading for any serious student of Scottish Gaeldom.' -- Allan I. MacInnes, Innes Review

Written by Scotland's master historian, this remains the best overview we have of the tumultuous transformation of the Highlands from the collapse of Jacobitism to the great crofting agitation. All of Tom Devine's superb skills are on display: fluent and accessible prose, perceptive arguments, and incisive analysis.' -- Angela McCarthy, Professor of Scottish and Irish HlÓp