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Book SynopsisConsiders the nature of Irish involvement in the Highland 'Crofters' War', examining the competing claims of various land reform movements for the consideration of the crofters, and highlighting the heterogeneous nature of Irish nationalism in the 1880s.
Trade ReviewNewby has written an excellent book on a vital subject... The book is the product of impressive scholarship. It is clearly written and constructed. -- Michael Hopkinson, University of Stirling History Scotland Andrew G. Newby's impressive study shows that the Scottish Highlands were also an arena in which the influence of Irish politics was very keenly felt. -- Kevin James, University of Guelph Scottish Historical Review ...an excellent contextual survey, which ranges over the politics of land and social reform in Ireland, Britain and Irish-America -- Emmet O'Connor, University of Ulster International Review of Scottish Studies ... a welcome addition to the study of land politics, British radicalism and Scottish-Irish relations in the later Victorian period. -- Adam Pole, University of Windsor Victorian Studies Newby's book is a well-written, well-theorized, important contribution to the burgeoning literature on land reform and radicalism in the nineteenth-century! he decenters the traditional narrative of radicalism in nineteenth-century Britain, with its emphasis on the English and on Parliament. -- Jamie L. Bronstein, New Mexico University American Historical Review !provides an important new anatomy of these otherwise confusing movements! the main story is now mush less tangled, and Newby has notably disengaged the Irish elements from the mystery of the crofter resurgence in the late nineteenth-century Highlands. -- Eric Richards, Flinders University Journal of British Studies !breaks new ground and provides by far the most thorough and sophisticated analysis yet attempted of any aspect of the Crofters' War. -- Malcolm Bangor Jones Newby's pioneering study of the interplay between agrarian and social radicals in Ireland and Scotland! should be read by all students of the Land War in Ireland and, more broadly, by all those interested in the history of social radicalism on these islands. -- Fintan Lane Newby has written an excellent book on a vital subject... The book is the product of impressive scholarship. It is clearly written and constructed. Andrew G. Newby's impressive study shows that the Scottish Highlands were also an arena in which the influence of Irish politics was very keenly felt. ...an excellent contextual survey, which ranges over the politics of land and social reform in Ireland, Britain and Irish-America ... a welcome addition to the study of land politics, British radicalism and Scottish-Irish relations in the later Victorian period. Newby's book is a well-written, well-theorized, important contribution to the burgeoning literature on land reform and radicalism in the nineteenth-century! he decenters the traditional narrative of radicalism in nineteenth-century Britain, with its emphasis on the English and on Parliament. !provides an important new anatomy of these otherwise confusing movements! the main story is now mush less tangled, and Newby has notably disengaged the Irish elements from the mystery of the crofter resurgence in the late nineteenth-century Highlands. !breaks new ground and provides by far the most thorough and sophisticated analysis yet attempted of any aspect of the Crofters' War. Newby's pioneering study of the interplay between agrarian and social radicals in Ireland and Scotland! should be read by all students of the Land War in Ireland and, more broadly, by all those interested in the history of social radicalism on these islands.
Table of Contents1. INTRODUCTION: The Land Question in Nineteenth Century Scotland and Ireland.; 2. "A FENIAN CONCLAVE IN THE COUNTRY"? The development of a Scottish Land Agitation, c. 1860-1877.; 3. "BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO EXPECT LITTLE, FOR THEY SHALL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED" Alleged and Actual Irish involvement in the development of the 'Crofters' War'.; 4. "AN OBSCURE HALL IN EAST NILE STREET" Urban Radicalism and the; 'Crofters' War', 1881-1882.; 5. "A VORTEX OF ALL-SWALLOWING SOCIALISM" Strands of land and social reform in Ireland and the Highlands.; 6. "A SCOTCH PARNELLITE PARTY" Land, Home Rule and the Third Reform Act.; 7. "TWO TRIBES WHICH SPRANG FROM THE SAME STOCK" Celtic Solidarity and Political Realignment in the Highlands, 1885-1895.; 8. "THE HIGHLANDS HAVE REAPED WHAT MICHAEL DAVITT HAS SOWN" - Legislation and Agitation to the Great War.; 9. CONCLUSION.
