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The Birth of the Modern Highlands

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Author: 
The Grantown Society
Published: 
June 2016
Format: 
Paperback
Pages: 
67 in full colour
Size: 
250 x 165mm
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The Grantown Society [2]


Ford was quite wrong. History is not bunk.
Take a look at this beautifully illustrated new book and you’ll see. The pictures are exquisite and the words are explicit, composed as they were by four people who know precisely what they’re talking about.

This is an introduction to the Highlands even Henry Ford would enjoy, it’s not a jaunt in a cheap American car but a transport of delight, courtesy of Strathspey’s finest chauffeurs.
Tom Ramage: Strathspey Herald Review, 28 July 2016

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This book gives a new perspective of Highland History.

It focuses on the eighteenth century Highlands especially, but not exclusively, the Grants of Strathspey, one of the half-dozen or so most powerful clans in the North of Scotland. It gives an insight into life in the Old Highlands during the half-century before the Forty-Five, and in the increasingly New Highlands during the half-century or so after it.

This valuable publication is thoroughly researched, beautifully illustrated, explicitly written and fully referenced.

Contents

Acknowledgements
Part One
Clan Society Before the Forty-Five - A Unique Visual Legacy
Part Two
State Funding - for Change in the Highlands
Part Three
Changing Southern Attitudes – to the Highlands and Highlanders
Part Four
The Hinge Decade: “in the Dawn of every Improvement” – Strathspey in the 1760s
Part Five
The Essence of Highland Culture: Promoting Piping in the New Age – and Strathspey Cummings also Succeed in London
Part Six
The Return of the Little Ice Age – The Economic Crossroads
Part Seven
Quotation References
Part Eight
Index
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