Highland Resistance: The Radical Tradition in the Scottish North. .(Book Review)

Iain Fraser Grigor. Highland Resistance: The Radical Tradition in the Scottish North. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing. 2000. Pp. 240. $29.95. ISBN 1-84018-265-2.

This volume purports to provide a survey of radical action on the Scottish Highland land question since the eighteenth century. As such it is reasonably comprehensive: most of the main events from the period of the Clearances to the modern disputes over the ownership of estates such as Assynt and Knoydart are covered. In places the author provides some interesting material, not least his use of articles from nationalist ...

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