Landscapes of Protest in the Scottish Highlands after 1914, Robertson
Автор: Iain J.M. Robertson Название: Landscapes of Protest in the Scottish Highlands after 1914: The Later Highland Land Wars ISBN: 1472411374 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472411372 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 153120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In November 1918, the implementation of agrarian change in the Scottish Highlands threatened another wave of unemployment and eviction for the land-working population, which led to widespread and varied social protest. Those who had been away on war service (and their families) faced returning to exactly the same social and economic conditions in the Scottish Highlands they had hoped they had left behind in the struggle to make ’a land fit for heroes’. Widespread and varied social protest rapidly followed. It argues that, previously, there has been a failure to capture fully the geography, chronology typology and rate of occurrence of these events. The book not only offers new insights and a greater understanding of what was happening in the Highlands in this period, but illustrates how a range of forms of protest were used which demand attention, not least for the fact that these events, unlike most of the earlier Land Wars period, were successful. There are functioning townships in the Highlands today that owe their existence to the land invasions of the 1920s. The book innovatively concentrates on formulating explanation and interpretation from within and looks to the crofting landscape as base, means and motive to disturbance and interpretation. It proposes that protest is much more convincingly understood as an expression of environmental ethics from 'the bottom up' coming increasingly into conflict with conservationist views expressed from 'the top down' It focuses on individual case studies in order to engage more convincingly with an important evidential base - that of popular memory of land disturbances - and to adopt a frame and lens through which to explore the fluid and contingent nature of protest performances. Based upon the belief that in the study of landscapes of social protest the old shibboleth of space as solely passive setting and symbolic register is no longer tenable is paid here to nature/culture interactions, to vernacular ecological b
Автор: Miller James Название: The Finest Road in the World: The Story of Travel and Transport in the Scottish Highlands ISBN: 1780275730 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780275734 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 11430.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: James Miller tells the dramatic and sometimes surprisingly humorous story of travel and transport in the Highlands. This thought-provoking book will appeal to all who like stories of travel and transport, and are interested in how changing modes of transport have affected the ways of life in the Highlands.
Автор: Devine T. M. Название: Clanship to Crofter`s War: The Social Transformation of the Scottish Highlands ISBN: 0719090768 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719090769 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 28150.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Charts the story of the people of the Scottish Highlands from medieval times to the great crofter`s rebellion in the 1880s -- .
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