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The Highland Clearances / John Prebble.

By: Prebble, John, 1915-2001.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1969Description: 336 p. : maps ; 18 cm.ISBN: 0140028374; 9780140028379.Subject(s): Land tenure -- Scotland -- Highlands | Land tenure -- Scotland -- Highlands -- History -- 18th century | Sheep -- Scotland | Land tenure -- Scotland -- Highlands -- History -- 19th century | Forced migration -- Scotland -- Highlands -- History -- 18th century | Forced migration -- Scotland -- Highlands -- History -- 19th century | Economics | Economics | European history | Scotland | Social & cultural history | Environmental management | Political oppression & persecution | Highlands (Scotland) -- Economic conditions | Highlands (Scotland) -- Emigration and immigration | Highlands (Scotland) -- History -- 18th century | Highlands (Scotland) -- History -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 941.1 PRE Summary: Following his reconstruction of the moorland battle in Culloden, John Prebble recounts how the Highlanders were deserted and then betrayed into famine and poverty. While the chiefs grew rich, the people died of cholera or famine.
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In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs. Following his magnificent reconstruction of 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.

'Mr Prebble tells a terrible story excellently. There is little need to search further to explain so much of the sadness and emptiness of the northern Highlands today' The Times.

Originally published: London: Secker & Warburg, 1963.

Bibliography: p. [315]-319.

Following his reconstruction of the moorland battle in Culloden, John Prebble recounts how the Highlanders were deserted and then betrayed into famine and poverty. While the chiefs grew rich, the people died of cholera or famine.

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