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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.
Publisher
BBC Scotland
Pub. Date
1970
Language
English
Description
At the end of the First World War, Lord Leverhulme, the creator of Lever Brothers and Port Sunlight, bought Lewis and Harris. He intended to turn them into a thriving centre of industry and commerce. This story illustrates what happens when someone from outside, used to a totally different lifestyle, defines progress on his own terms.
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Publisher
Birlinn
Language
English
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His intention was to revolutionise the lives and environments of its 30,000 people, and those of neighbouring Harris, which he shortly added to his estate. For the next five years a state of conflict reigned in the Hebrides. Island seamen and servicemen returned from the war to discover a new landlord whose declared aim was to uproot their identity as independent crofter/fishermen and turn them into tenured wage-owners. They fought back, and this...
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