The People Are Not There': The Transformation of Badenoch 1800-1863 Taylor David
The People Are Not There': The Transformation of Badenoch 1800-1863 Taylor David Badenoch today is a landscape of empty glens and ruined settlements, but it was not always so. Although this is an…
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The People Are Not There': The Transformation of Badenoch 1800-1863 Taylor David
Badenoch today is a landscape of empty glens and ruined settlements, but it was not always so. Although this is an intensely localised study, the dramatic nature of change is explored against the wider context of events not just across the Highlands, but also within the British state and its global empire.Badenoch's journey moves from the relative prosperity of the Napoleonic Wars into the terrible post-war destitution that devastated peasant, tacksman and Duke of Gordon alike. This book examines the transformative events that shaped the region's destiny: climate and market forces, hunger and relief measures, sheep farms and sporting estates, agricultural improvement and proprietorial greed, and the evolution of clanship.
Estate reform and 'improvement' gradually brought a degree of economic and social stability, but inevitably resulted in depopulation as people were forced
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