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Martyrs: Glendale and the Revolution in Skye

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Historie

The true story of an uprising against wealthy landowners in early nineteenth-century Scotland.

In the 1830s and 1840s, the district of Glendale on the Scottish island of Skye was swamped by immigrants cleared from other north Skye estates. The resultant overcrowding and over-use of land caused simmering discontent—not against the incomers, but against the landowners, who regarded their tenants as no more than chattels.

This book is a definitive account of what happened when the powderkeg erupted and a full-scale land war ensued. Pitched battles with police, factors, and bailiffs, military intervention, arrests, trials, imprisonment, and the personal intervention of the Prime Minister were to have huge consequences for crofters all over the Highlands, who, ultimately, were the victors. At the heart of the rising was a man named John MacPherson of Lower Milovaig in Glendale, a courageous, charismatic and articulate crofter who was twice imprisoned for leading a rebellion against a system which kept all but the wealthiest in a state of bitter servitude. MacPherson quickly became known as “the Glendale Martyr.” Martyrs tells the story of John MacPherson, his comrades, his allies, his enemies, and his final success.

© 2015 Birlinn (E-bog): 9780857908803

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E-bog: 15. oktober 2015

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