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The Politics of Highland Improvement: Annexation and the Landed Estate in Scotland, 1747-1784

The Politics of Highland Improvement: Annexation and the Landed Estate in Scotland, 1747-1784

Desportes, Juliette

Hardcover

Series: Scotland's Land

General World HistoryBritish HistoryArchitecture History

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 31, 2027

ISBN10: 139955672X
ISBN13: 9781399556729
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Jan 31 2027
Pages: 336
Language: English

This book studies attempts to 'improve' land and livelihoods in the post-Culloden Highlands. Its starting point is the Jacobite rising of 1745, which led to the forfeiture and then annexation of thirteen Highland landed estates between 1747 and 1784 by the Hanoverian state. The period of annexation would enshrine many of the features that came to characterise the Highlands over the next hundred years, from crofting tenure to increasingly privatised estate landscapes.

Replacing the Highland tenantry at the centre of the processes of land improvement and uncovering fresh perspectives on themes such as mapping, crofting, gendered labour and rural resistance, the book explores the ways the Highland landed estate and, by extension, the Highland region, was used as a laboratory to experiment with ideas about social, cultural and economic improvement.

It also traces how these ideas were then shaped, negotiated and contested by estate residents.

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