The People Are Not There': The Transformation of Badenoch 1800-1863

by David Taylor

Book Overview

Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Award

Badenoch today is a landscape of empty glens and ruined settlements, but it was not always so. This book examines the transformative events that shaped the region's destiny: climate and market forces, hunger and relief measures, sheep farms and sporting estates, agricultural improvement and proprietorial greed, and the evolution of clanship. Although this is an intensely...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910900982
• ISBN13: 9781910900987
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: John Donald Publishers
• Length: 448 Pages