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- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
6 June 2019
Summary
Eighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world. But there was in the same period another side to the history of the nation. Many of Scotland’s people were subjected to coercive and sometimes violent change- traditional and customary relationships were overturned and replaced by the ‘rational’ exploitation of land use.
The Scottish Clearances is a superb and highly original account of this sometimes terrible proc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141985930 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141985933 |
| Author: | T.M. Devine |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 6 June 2019 |
| Weight: | 353g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
The definitive word for an academic generation at least on this most controversial of topics in Scottish history … Dramatic * Herald Scotland *
Persuasive… A necessary book * Scotsman *
Powerful … admirable lucidity … important. – Ewen A Cameron * Irish Times *
About The Author
T.M. Devine
T. M. Devine has written four books for Penguin- The Scottish Nation, Scotland’s Empire, To the Ends of the Earth and Independence or Union. He is Sir William Fraser Professor Emeritus of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh. In 2001 he was awarded the Royal Gold Medal, Scotland’s supreme academic accolade, and has won all three major prizes for Scottish historical research. He was knighted in 2014 for services to the study of Scottish history. In 2018 he received the UK Parliament’s All Party History and Archives Group Lifetime Achievement Award for Historical Studies.
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