Politics of Highland Improvement

Annexation and the Landed Estate in Scotland, 1747-1784

AvJuliette Desportes

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2027-01-31
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Scotland's Land
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399556729

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Juliette Desportes is a postdoctoral researcher based at the University of the Highlands and Islands. Her research focuses on the ways Highland land has been managed, transformed, and contested across the long eighteenth-century, with a particular interest in rural histories and geographies of protest and resistance and the politics of the ‘land question’ in Scotland.

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IllustrationsAcknowledgementsAbbreviations and ConventionsIntroduction: The Drifts of Progress 1. BeginningsFrom Central Governance to Estate Management2. Mapping ProgressCartography and the Making of the Improved Highlands?3. The Origins of CroftingSmallholdings and the Alternate Geographies of Improvement4. Spinning ImprovementManufacture and Experiences of Labour5. Repertoires of NegotiationSubversion, Adaptation, and Contestation in Estate Petitions6. Contested SpacesPractices and Environments of ResistanceConclusion: The Highland Landed Estate in the 'First Phase of Clearance'Appendices Bibliography Inde