THE SCOTTISH CLEARANCES: A HISTORY OF THE DISPOSSESSED, 1600-1900

Book ID/图书代码： 00530019C00006

English Summary/英文概要： ’A superb book ... Anybody interested in Scottish history needs to read it’ Andrew Marr, Sunday Times

Eighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world. But there was in the same period another side to the history of the nation. Many of Scotland’s people were subjected to coercive and sometimes violent change, as traditional ways of life were overturned by the ’rational’ exploitation of land use. The Scottish Clearances is a superb and highly original account of this sometimes terrible process, which changed the Lowland countryside forever, as it also did, more infamously, the old society of the Highlands.

Based on a vast array of original sources, this pioneering book is the first to chart this tumultuous saga in one volume, with due attention to evictions and loss of land in both north and south of the Highland line. In the process, old myths are exploded and familiar assumptions undermined. With many fascinating details and the sense of an epic human story, The Scottish Clearances is an evocative memorial to all whose lives were irreparably changed in the interests of economic efficiency.

This is a story of forced clearance, of the destruction of entire communities and of large-scale emigration. Some winners were able to adapt and exploit the new opportunities, but there were also others who lost everything. The clearances created the landscape of Scotland today, but it came at a huge price.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 18世纪的苏格兰以产生了许多开明的思想而闻名，这些思想帮助塑造了现代世界。但在同一时期，这个国家的历史还有另外一面。由于对土地的“合理”利用颠覆了传统的生活方式，许多苏格兰人受到了胁迫，有时甚至是暴力的改变。《苏格兰清除令》是对这一有时可怕的过程的精彩而极具原创性的描述，这一过程永远地改变了低地的乡村，更臭名昭著的是，它也改变了苏格兰高地的旧社会。

基于大量的原始资料，这本开创性的书是第一个在一卷图中描绘这个动荡的传奇故事，适当关注在高地的南北部的驱逐和土地损失。在这个过程中，旧的神话被打破，熟悉的假设被破坏。《苏格兰清除令》以许多引人入胜的细节和史诗般的人类故事感，唤起了人们对所有为提高经济效率而不可挽回地改变生活的人的回忆。

这是一个强迫清除、破坏整个社区和大规模移民的故事。一些成功者能够适应并利用新的机遇，但也有一些人失去了一切。这些空地造就了今天的苏格兰，但也付出了巨大的代价。（WYL）

Awards/获奖情况： “一本好书……任何对苏格兰历史感兴趣的人都应该读一读。”(安德鲁•马尔《星期日泰晤士报》)

“这至少是在苏格兰历史上最具争议的话题，这一代学者的权威词汇是……戏剧性(预示着苏格兰)

有说服力的……必备书籍。”(苏格兰人)

“强大的…令人钦佩的清醒……重要的”。(《爱尔兰时报》)

“如果汤姆•迪瓦恩爵士没有选择成为一名历史学家，他就会成为一名伟大的历史小说家。这种选择对文学来说可能是一种损失，但《苏格兰清除令:被剥夺者的历史》值得一读。这本书的范围——从17世纪到20世纪的低地、高地和散居海外的人——令人印象深刻，所展示的知识的细节和深度也令人惊叹——但真正令人惊讶的是它的可读性。”(戴安娜•加瓦尔东电讯报)

“在这本精彩的书的最后，一个更微妙的画面出现了：什么才可以被称为伟大的苏格兰人口革命！”(大卫•阿罗诺维奇《泰晤士报》)

“苏格兰最重要的历史学家…一个主要出版物。(凯瑟琳•杰米，新政治家)

A superb book ... Anybody interested in Scottish history needs to read it(Andrew Marr Sunday Times)

The definitive word for an academic generation at least on this most controversial of topics in Scottish history ... Dramatic (Herald Scotland)

Persuasive... A necessary book (Scotsman)

Powerful ... admirable lucidity ... important. (Ewen A Cameron Irish Times)

If Sir Tom Devine hadn’t chosen to be a historian, he’d have made a great historical novelist. That choice may have been a loss to literature, but The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, is worth it. The scope of this book - the Lowlands, the Highlands and the diaspora from the 17th century to the 20th - is impressive, and the detail and depth of knowledge displayed are remarkable - but what’s truly amazing about it is how damn readable it is. (Diana Gabaldon Telegraph)

At the end of this superb book, a much more nuanced picture emerges of what might be called the great demographic revolution of Scotland. (David Aaronovitch The Times)

Scotland’s foremost historian ... a major publication. (Kathleen Jamie New Statesman)

About the Author/作者介绍： 迪瓦恩为企鹅出版社写过四本书:《苏格兰民族》、《苏格兰帝国》、《到天涯海角》和《独立或联合》。他是爱丁堡大学苏格兰历史和古生物学名誉教授威廉•弗雷泽爵士。2001年，他被授予皇家金奖，这是苏格兰最高的学术荣誉，并获得了苏格兰历史研究的所有三个主要奖项。2014年，他因对苏格兰历史的研究做出贡献而被授予爵士头衔。2018年，他获得了英国议会所有政党历史和档案集团历史研究终身成就奖。

T. M. Devine has written four books for Penguin: The Scottish Nation, Scotland’s Empire, To the Ends of the Earth and Independence or Union. He is Sir William Fraser Professor Emeritus of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh. In 2001 he was awarded the Royal Gold Medal, Scotland’s supreme academic accolade, and has won all three major prizes for Scottish historical research. He was knighted in 2014 for services to the study of Scottish history. In 2018 he received the UK Parliament’s All Party History and Archives Group Lifetime Achievement Award for Historical Studies.

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