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Landscapes of Protest in the Scottish Highlands after 1914 - The Later Highland Land Wars (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Landscapes of Protest in the Scottish Highlands after 1914 - The Later Highland Land Wars (Hardcover, New Ed)
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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
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