The Making of the Crofting Community

Hunter, James

ISBN 10: 0859760146 / ISBN 13: 9780859760140

Published by John Donald Publishers LTD, Edinburgh, 1978

About this Item

Account, from about 1800 to 1930, of rural communities on the edges of northern Scotland and the Hebrides, small landholders or tenants who wrest a living from the land, usually needing other jobs to get by. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; the second printing, 1978; first published two years earlier. Light wear to book; jacket shows a little edgewear with a puckered/creased bit along the bottom edge of the rear panel, lightly faded spine. Text clean; xi, two maps, blank, 309 pages; biblography, index. Size: Octavo.

Seller Inventory # y0239

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Making of the Crofting Community
• Publisher: John Donald Publishers LTD, Edinburgh
• Publication Date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0859760146
• ISBN 13: 9780859760140
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: Second Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Economics
  • British Isles
  • Sociology

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Synopsis

This book has been seminal in bringing to the fore the injustices that have been inflicted on the Highlands in the name of government andlandlord - injustices often lost in the name of dry statistics and academic balance.

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. Having long been one of the classics of Birlinn's John Donald list, this revised and updated new edition includes a substantial new preface and an extensive reworking of the existing text.