Northern Scotland : : Volume 8 / / Alastair Macdonald, Jim MacPherson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Macdonald, Alastair,; MacPherson, Jim,
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, David,; Beard, Ellen L.,; Brunton, Deborah,; Cormack, Wade,; Crawford, Barbara,; Dodgshon, Robert A.,; Harper, Marjory,; Hunter, James,; Johnston, Jim A.,; Kirby, Keith,; MacKinnon, Iain,; MacPherson, D. A. J.,; Neville, Cynthia J.,; Thomas, Ben,; Whyte, Ian,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Northern Scotland Books : NSB
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (128 p.)

Considers historical, cultural, economic, political and geographical themes relating to Northern Scotland. Northern Scotland is an established scholarly journal that has been in existence since 1972. It is a fully peer-reviewed publication whose editorial board, contributors, reviewers and referees are drawn from a wide range of experts across the world. While it carries material of a mainly historical nature, from the earliest times to the modern era, it is a cross-disciplinary publication, which also addresses cultural, economic, political and geographical themes relating to the Highlands and Islands and the north-east of Scotland. This issue looks at a wide range of topics, including satire, the Highland clearances, Alexander Mackenzie and diaspora. Combining a range of articles from a variety of experts, this issue seeks to explore the history and culture of northern Scotland.Key FeaturesConsiders issues of social change, colonialism, emigration and migrationProvides fresh readings of Northern Scotland’s established historyContributors are drawn from a wide range of experts across the world

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ARTICLES -- Satire and Social Change: The Bard, the Schoolmaster and the Drover -- Colonialism and the Highland Clearances -- ‘Quite destitute and . . . very desirous of going to North America’: The Roots and Repercussions of Emigration from Sutherland and Caithness -- ‘The Clach’: Alexander Mackenzie and the Land Question in the Late-Nineteenth Century Highlands and Islands -- REVIEW ESSAY -- The Scots Abroad: Recent Approaches to Migration, Diaspora and Identity -- REVIEWS -- James Miller, The Gathering Stream: The Story of the Moray Firth -- Alan Macniven, The Vikings in Islay. The Place of Names in Hebridean Settlement History -- Alasdair Ross, Land Assessment and Lordship in Medieval Northern Scotland -- David Taylor, The Wild Black Region: Badenoch 1750–1800 -- Reay D. G. Clarke, Two Hundred Years of Farming in Sutherland. The Story of my Family -- Richard J. Grace, Opium and Empire: The Lives and Careers of William Jardine and James Matheson -- Ewan A. Cameron (ed.), Recovering from the Clearances: Land Struggle, Resettlement, and Community Ownership in the Hebrides -- James Hunter, with photographs by Cailean Maclean, From the Low Tide of the Sea to the Highest Mountain Tops: Community Ownership of Land in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland -- Ewen A. Cameron and Annie Tindley (eds), Dr Lachlan Grant of Ballachulish 1871–1945 -- Mairi Stewart, Voices of the Forest: A Social History of Scottish Forestry in the Twentieth Century -- Jayne Glass, Martin F. Price, Charles Warren and Alister Scott (eds), Lairds, Land and Sustainability – Scottish Perspectives on Upland Management