- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Mainstream Publishing; New edition edition (4 Sep 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1840183764
- ISBN-13: 978-1840183764
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.5 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 264,855 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Written by a man who is both an award-winning historian of the Highlands and Islands and a key figure in shaping the region's future development, Last of the Free is a ground-breaking and definitive account of how the Highlands and Islands of Scotland evolved into the way they are today. Never before has the history of the Highlands and Islands been recounted so comprehensively and in so much fascinating, often moving detail. But this book is not simply the story of humanity's millenium-long involvement with one of the world's most spectacular localities. It is also a major contribution to present-day debate about how Scotland-and Britain should be organised. James Hunter's central contention is that the Highlands and Islands were most successful when the region possessed a large measure of autonomy, which turned places like Iona and Kirkwall into centres of European significance. That autonomy was destroyed, this book maintains, by medieval Scotland's monarchy, by seventeenth-century Scotland's Parliament and by the British politicians who inherited the Scottish state's unrelenting determination to ensure that inhabitants of the Highlands and Islands had no worthwhile control over their own destinies.
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An excellent insight life in the Highlands and Islands,
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This review is from: Last of the Free: A Millennial History of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (Hardcover)
This book provides an excellent insight into the lives of the people of the Highlands and islands of Scotland. The book charts the history of the population from prehistoric time to the present day, illustrating their hardship and struggle through the ages against political, religious and economic oppression. The book isn't all about battles, clans and chiefs, but focusses on the ordinary people going about their daily business trying to survive in a harsh political and physical environment. I would recommend this book as a historical introduction to anyone thinking of venturing into this beautifull area of Scotland or just wanting to know more about the grass roots of highland history.
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