The Lowland Clearances: Scotland's Silent Revolution, 1760 - 1830
Arising out of research for an acclaimed BBC Scotland series broadcast in 2003, this book addresses the phenomenon of the Lowland Clearances. Covering the events that were known at the time and have been referred to by historians since as "The Age of Improvement," this book reveals that what actually took place was a wholesale revolution in agriculture. Detailed is how over the course of two generations the very structures of Lowland society were ripped apart — thousands of people were uprooted and hundreds of tiny settlements were destroyed, eradicating an entire social stratum and changing Scotland forever. These Lowland Clearances paved the way for the events that would later sweep through Highland Scotland, and the book contends that they should be called the Scottish Clearances.
- Author
- Peter Aitchison, Andrew Cassell
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 166
- Publisher
- Tuckwell Press, Ltd.
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781862322776
- Characters
- John Cockburn of Ormiston, Archibald Grant of Monymusk
- Settings
- Lowlands, Scotland
- Genres
- history
- Release date
- 2004
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