The Great Highland Famine: Hunger, Emigration and the Scottish Highlands in the Nineteenth Century

by Tom M. Devine

Overview

The Great Hunger in nineteenth-century Ireland was a major human tragedy of modern times. Almost a million perished and a further two million emigrated in the wake of potato blight and economic collapse. Acute famine also gripped the Scottish Highlands at the same time, causing misery, hardship and distress. The story of that lesser known human disaster is told in this prize-winning and internationally acclaimed book. The author describes the classic themes of highland and Scottish history, including the clearances, landlordism, crofting life, emigration and migration in a subtle and intricate reconstruction based on a wide range of sources. This book should appeal to all those with an interest in Scottish history, the emigration of Scottish people and the Highland Clearances.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781788854108
Publisher:	Birlinn, Limited
Publication date:	01/04/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Sir Tom Devine is the Sir William Fraser Professor Emeritus of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author or editor of more that forty books on Scottish historical studies and related fields. The only historian to be knighted by HM The Queen 'for services to the study of Scottish history', he has been described by The Times newspaper 'as close to a national bard as the nation has'.

Sir Tom Devine is the Sir William Fraser Professor Emeritus of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author or editor of more that forty books on Scottish historical studies and related fields. The only historian to be knighted by HM The Queen ‘for services to the study of Scottish history’, he has been described by The Times newspaper as ‘as close to a national bard as the nation has’.

Editorial Reviews

This book is a major step forward in Highland historiography

Northern Scotland

Devine's history is total, sensitive and scholarly with something to say to anthropologists, sociologists and humanists as well as historians

Choice USA: A Current Review for College Libraries

Devine's history is total, sensitive and scholarly with something to say to anthropologists, sociologists and humanists as well as historians

Choice USA: A Current Review for College Libraries