The Lowland clearances : Scotland's silent revolution, 1760-1830 / Peter Aitchison and Andrew Cassell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aitchison, Peter, 1964-

Contributor:

Cassell, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land tenure--Scotland--History.

Land tenure.

Social conditions.

History.

Scotland--History--18th century.

Scotland.

Scotland--History--19th century.

Scotland--Social conditions--18th century.

Scotland--Social conditions--19th century.

Physical Description:

163 pages : map. ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

East Linton : Tuckwell, 2003.

Summary:

Arising out of research for an acclaimed BBC Scotland series broadcast in 2003, this book addresses the phenomenon of the Lowland Clearances. Covering the events that were known at the time and have been referred to by historians since as "The Age of Improvement," this book reveals that what actually took place was a wholesale revolution in agriculture. Detailed is how over the course of two generations the very structures of Lowland society were ripped apart--thousands of people were uprooted and hundreds of tiny settlements were destroyed, eradicating an entire social stratum and changing Scotland forever. These Lowland Clearances paved the way for the events that would later sweep through Highland Scotland, and the book contends that they should be called the Scottish Clearances.

ISBN:

1862322775

OCLC:

52784411