Wild Scots: Four Hundred Years of Highland History

Dust jacket notes: "Wild Scots is a captivating and controversial history of the Highlands that focuses squarely on its people. It traces the ironies of their fate as emigration, forced clearances and the breakdown of feudal relations undermined traditional customs. But Michael Fry's groundbreaking reassessment of the Highlands is not the usual eulogy for a dying era. He argues that modernization simply had to happen, and traces the inventive ways in which Gaelic culture withstood decline. Wild Scots captures a truly distinctive culture with an emblematic capacity to withstand volatile political change."