The Making of the Crofting Community

Hunter, James; James, Hunter

ISBN 10: 1912476320 / ISBN 13: 9781912476329

Verlag: Origin, 2018

pp. 304. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 18378161457

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This book has been seminal in bringing to the fore the injustices that have been inflicted on the Highlands in the name of government and landlord – injustices often lost in the name of dry statistics and academic balance.

Written by a man who has gone on to become both an award-winning historian of the Highlands and a leading figure in the public life of the region, The Making of the Crofting Community has attracted praise, inspired debate, and provoked outrage and controversy over the years. This book remains necessary to challenge standard academic interpretations of the Highland past. Having long been one of the classics of Birlinn’s John Donald list, this revised and updated new edition includes a substantial new preface and an extensive reworking of the existing text.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

James Hunter is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of the Highlands and Islands. He has written extensively about the north of Scotland and about the region’s worldwide diaspora. In the course of a varied career Hunter has been, among other things, director of the Scottish Crofters Union, chairman of Highlands and Islands Enterprise and an award-winning journalist. His book Set Adrift upon the World (Birlinn 2016) was Saltire History Book of the Year in 2016.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Making of the Crofting Community
Verlag: Origin
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New