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Genre/Form: | Church history History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Allan W MacColl |
ISBN: | 0748623825 9780748623822 |
OCLC Number: | 255448133 |
Description: | VII, 240 Seiten. |
Contents: | Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. The Free Course of Providence: Presbyterian Social Thought in the Age of Disruption and Destitution; 2. A Peculiar People: Highland Religion and Identity; 3. 'The Crofters' War': Genesis 1880-3; 4. The Escalation of Agitation; 5. Politics, Presbyteries and 'The Prophet'; 6. 'The Crofters' War': Disunity and Disorder 1886-8; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. |
Series Title: | Scottish historical review., Monographs series ;, 14. |
Responsibility: | Allan W. MacColl. |
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A pioneering re-assessment of Christian social teaching in the Highlands and islands during the later nineteenth century. Northern History This book, then, is simultaneously an important addition to historical scholarship and an intriguing contribution to current debate as to how Highland society came to be the way it is. That is why, in the Highlands especially, Allan MacColl deserves the widest possible readership! This is an outstandingly good book. -- James Hunter, UHI Centre for History Scottish Historical Review A pioneering re-assessment of Christian social teaching in the Highlands and islands during the later nineteenth century. This book, then, is simultaneously an important addition to historical scholarship and an intriguing contribution to current debate as to how Highland society came to be the way it is. That is why, in the Highlands especially, Allan MacColl deserves the widest possible readership! This is an outstandingly good book. Read more...

