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Land and the “Crofter Question” in Nineteenth-Century Scotland

Author(s) -

Andrew G. Newby

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

international review of scottish studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1923-5763

pISSN - 1923-5755

DOI - 10.21083/irss.v35i0.1069

Subject(s) - surprise , history , context (archaeology) , balance (ability) , term (time) , geography , archaeology , sociology , psychology , physics , communication , quantum mechanics , neuroscience

The scale and rapidity of the outbreak of land agitation in the Scottish Highlands in the 1880s took many onlookers by surprise, reflecting a general perception in Britain of the Highlanders as loyal and, in the decades following the suppression of the Jacobites, 'pacified'. This article sets the events of 1880s into a longer-term context, and examines the balance between 'internal' and 'external' forces on the development of the 'Crofters' War'.

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