With the banning of private armies in the late 18th century, the
relation of the Scottish clan chiefs to their kinsmen and tenants
became increasingly economic rather than military. Overpopulation
of the Highlands, the failure of the Kelp industry and then of the
potato crop in the 1840s left sheep as the only profitable Highland
product. This eventaully led to the forced removal of many
thousands of Highland tenants from their ancestral lands. Widely
regarded as a betrayal of trust, the clearances brought to an end
any remaining romantic-feudal notions of duty and obligation in the
face of the forces of market capitalism. Prebble convincingly
portrays the nature of the New Realism. (Kirkus UK)
Betrayal!
In the terrible aftermath of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs...
Following his magnificent reconstruction of the moorland battle in Culloden, John Prebble recounts how the Highlanders were deserted and then betrayed into famine and poverty. While their chiefs grew rich on meat and wool, the people died of cholera and starvation or, evicted from the glens to make way for sheep, were forced to emigrate to foreign lands.
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