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
T. M. Devine is Personal Senior Research Professor of History and Director of the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies at the University of Edinburgh
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 History,
University of Otago, New Zealand
'Professor Devine's book is scrupulously researched and provides
the definitive explanation of the Highland crofting system.'
Press and Journal
'A book that any student of Highland history will want to
read.'
The Herald
'A powerful story, written with great passion, of defeat, social
destruction, emigration, rebellion and cultural revival ... a
masterful book ... by the leading authority on the subject.'
Teaching History
Widely considered the definitive work since its original
publication in 1994, this study of the Highlands in the 18th and
19th Centuries by Scotland’s premier historian receives a welcome
reissue. It’s a book densely packed with information, following the
Highlands from the collapse of Jacobitism to the Crofters’ War of
the 1880s, and explains how the clan system was supplanted by a new
orthodoxy much more in line with the priorities of an urbanising
and industrialising Britain. Devine is part of the tendency which
believes that the clan system was already in decline before 1745
and that the Duke of Cumberland, while making a useful symbol, did
much less harm to the Highlands than the inevitable march of
progress which was already transforming the Lowlands. Delving into
the language and culture of the region, as well as the pain that
eviction, famine and emigration exacted on the people, this is a
comprehensive account of the period that is still to be
bettered.
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