Landscapes of Protest in the Scottish Highlands after 1914 The Later Highland Land Wars

Shortlisted for the Saltire Society Research Book of the Year Award 2014 'The so-called Later Highland Land Wars" have long awaited systematic analysis. No longer. Robertson's study transforms our understanding of the causes, form and consequences of agitation over the access to land in the post-1914 Scottish Highlands. Blending conceptual innovation, oral history, and subtle readings of the archive, this is a critical landmark in protest history.' Carl Griffin, University of Sussex, UK 'Skilfully interrogating rich archival sources, Iain Robertson reveals the extent and significance of rural protest in Highland Scotland after 1914 - protest led by men who, having fought for their country, were now fighting for their land. This is an insightful book about landscape and power, memory and morality, politics and resistance.' Charles W.J. Withers, University of Edinburgh, UK 'Robertson succeeds admirably in his aim of shedding new light on the geographies, causes, and legacies of the land wars, and the book is a valuable and original contribution to the reinvigorated field of protest studies'. Journal of Historical Geography 'The book is logically structured and well-written ... (its) clear strength lies in its telling of a social history of ordinary people and their everyday experiences of living in the borderlands ... The authors are to be commended for producing a significant contribution to scholarship in border studies, social history, and ethnographic approaches in human geography'. Journal of Historical Geography 'Iain Robertson brings new and intriguing perspectives to bear on the mechanics of land raiding and on the motivation of the people (many of them newly demobilised soldiers) who engaged in it. This he accomplishes, first, by meticulous analysis (founded on extensive archival research) of a whole series of separate raids and, second, by exploring the extent to which agrarian protest in the post-1918 Highlands and Islands conformed, or f