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Argyll,
1730-1850
In this thoroughly researched, comprehensive and instantly accessible
book, Robert McGeachy tells the story of a revolution, one that
would extend to the rest of the Highlands and Islands, set in
train when Argyll's leading families, Campbells always prominent
among them, turned their backs on clanship, and embraced an
explicitly capitalist approach to the management of their estates.
Robert McGeachy's sympathies lie with the victims of this revolution,
men and women whose communities fell apart as the pace of landlord,
induced change accelerated. But, for all that those people suffered
because of what was done to them, they did not suffer passively.
If Argyll's lairds were at the forefront of modernising, as
they saw it, Highlands and Islands society, the generality of
Argyll's population were in the vanguard of organising resistance
to the new order. Their fightback, as Robert McGeachy shows
conclusively, was both more widespread and more effective than
generally tends to be thought. "Argyll, 1730-1850"
also examines what is to be learned of social upheaval from
folk belief; quarrying, mining and the beginnings of industrialisation;
Argyll men's increasing participation in the British military;
official hostility to Gaelic; and just about everything, in
fact, that helped to make Argyll, by the mid-nineteenth century,
so radically different from the Argyll of a hundred years before.

The
Argyll Book Argyll, Dalriada or Earra-ghaidheal, "the
Coastland" or "Boundary of the Gael", is one
of the most beautiful and historically significant parts of
Scotland. Before the local government reorganization of 1975,
Argyll was also one of Scotland's biggest counties. Bounded
by Inverness-shire to the north and stretching as far south
as the Mull of Kintyre, it had a coastline measuring a staggering
2220 miles and took in 90 islands, including Mull, Iona Tiree,
Lismore, Jura, Islay, Gigha and Colonsay. Covers topics from
prehistory to stately homes, folklore and literature, that relate
to Argyll.

Villages
of Southern Argyll For 5,000 years, southern Argyll has
been home to people of culture, ideas, skills and power. The
standing stones, cairns and cists of Mid Argyll signal an area
of importance in ancient times almost unequalled throughout
the British Isles. In the first millennium of the Christian
era, the south of Argyll became the heart of Celtic Christianity
and its missionaries influenced the whole of Scotland. It was
also the cradle of a nation as the kings of Dalriada pushed
east to create a united kingdom of Scotland. It is an area which
is more geographically accessible than northern Argyll, but
in the past that access was achieved more often by water than
over land. Only the drovers pushed their black cattle through
passes in the spines of rolling hills which mark each of its
many peninsulas. Settlements arose where there was fertile land,
access to a generous sea, a need for strategic protection -
and sometimes all three.
25
Cycle Routes: Argyll and Bute (25... Cycle Routes.

Ferry
Tales of Argyll and the Isles... Here is a record of the
ferries that ply the waters of the coast of Argyll, and the
lochs. This illustrated title incorporates a web of stories
of boats and crossings, of places and personalities, gleaned
from experience, from archives and from people's memories.
The
Lonely Lands: Luath Guide to Argyll... and the West Highlands
of Scotland.

Villages
of Northern Argyll Argyll's historical importance goes back
well over 1,500 years. As the centre of the kingdom of Dalriada
the area was of seminal importance in terms of Gaelic culture,
and was also of extreme significance in the spread of Celtic
Christianity. Geographically it is a region of wild coastline,
open moorland and rugged mountains separated by deep lochs and
fast flowing rivers, with little cultivable ground. There are
considerable mineral resources and the forests have always been
coveted by Lowlanders, but lines of communication are difficult
and were, until recently, often dangerous. Even so, for 2,000
years and more people have struggled to make a living here and
one of the questions this book address is how, and why.
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