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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
A dance was devised in eighteenth-century Skye. An exhilarating
dance. A dance, a visitor reports, 'the emigration from Skye has
occasioned'. The visitor asks for the dance's name. 'They call it
America,' he's told. In his introduction to this new edition of his
classic and pioneering account of what happened to the thousands of
people who left Skye and the wider north of Scotland to make new
lives across the sea, historian James Hunter reflects on what led
him to embark on travels and researches that took him across a
continent. To Georgia, North Carolina and Montana; to Nova Scotia,
Quebec, Ontario and the Mohawk Valley; to prairie farms and great
cities; to the Rocky Mountains, British Columbia and Washington
State. This is the story of the Highland impact on the New World.
The story of how soldiers, explorers, guerrilla fighters, fur
traders, lumberjacks, railway builders and settlers from Scotland's
glens and islands contributed so much to the USA and Canada. It is
the story of how a hard-pressed people found in North America a
land of opportunity.
'A gripping, heart-breaking account of the famine winter of 1847' -
Rosemary Goring, The Herald Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize
When Scotland's 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the
country was plunged into crisis. In the Hebrides and the West
Highlands a huge relief effort came too late to prevent starvation
and death. Further east, meanwhile, towns and villages from
Aberdeen to Wick and Thurso, rose up in protest at the cost of the
oatmeal that replaced potatoes as people's basic foodstuff.
Oatmeal's soaring price was blamed on the export of grain by
farmers and landlords cashing in on even higher prices elsewhere.
As a bitter winter gripped and families feared a repeat of the
calamitous famine then ravaging Ireland, grain carts were seized,
ships boarded, harbours blockaded, a jail forced open, the military
confronted. The army fired on one set of rioters. Savage sentences
were imposed on others. But thousands-strong crowds also gained key
concessions. Above all they won cheaper food. Those dramatic events
have long been ignored or forgotten. Now, in James Hunter, they
have their historian. The story he tells is, by turns, moving,
anger-making and inspiring. In an era of food banks and growing
poverty, it is also very timely.
On a hillside near Ballachulish in the Scottish Highlands in May
1752 a rider is assassinated by a gunman. The murdered man is Colin
Campbell, a government agent travelling to nearby Duror where he's
evicting farm tenants to make way for his relatives. Campbell's
killer evades capture, but Britain's rulers insist this challenge
to their authority must result in a hanging. The sacrificial victim
is James Stewart, who is organising resistance to Campbell's
takeover of lands long held by his clan, the Appin Stewarts. James
is a veteran of the Highland uprising crushed in April 1746 at
Culloden. In Duror he sees homes torched by troops using terror
tactics against rebel Highlanders. The same brutal response to
dissent means that James's corpse will for years hang from a
towering gibbet and leave a community utterly ravaged. Introducing
this new and updated edition of his account of what came to be
called the Appin Murder, historian James Hunter tells how his own
Duror upbringing introduced him to the tragic story of James
Stewart.
This book has been seminal in bringing to the fore the injustices
that have been inflicted on the Highlands in the name of government
and landlord - 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.
Author and consultant James Hunter believes that-in the midst of
numerous national corporate scandals-leaders must take a fresh look
at leadership through the lens of some very ancient principles.
Leadership that is authentic and effective is "servant"
leadership-following the principles revealed in the life and
ministry of Jesus Christ:
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"Recently it struck me that if love changes people, which I know it
does, it would seem to follow that God is the source of change and
growth because He is love. Put another way, when people begin
loving others through their efforts and behavior, God has the
opportunity to work in the lives of both the giver and the
receiver."
"In his new book, "The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle,
"Hunter demonstrates that leadership and character development are
one. But the work, and even the pain, of changing one's
self-breaking old, worn-out habits-is not easy. Hunter provides an
uncomplicated, straightforward, three-step change process he has
seen successfully employed by literally thousands of leaders to
effect change in their lives and organizations and fulfill
beneficial goals.
This groundbreaking book will open the eyes of frustrated,
disheartened leaders at every level and foster change for good at
the personal, organizational, and societal level.
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