About the Author

Sir Tom Devine is the Sir William Fraser Professor Emeritus of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author or editor of more that forty books on Scottish historical studies and related fields. The only historian to be knighted by HM The Queen ‘for services to the study of Scottish history’, he has been described by The Times newspaper as ‘as close to a national bard as the nation has’.

Reviews

"The tragic experience of the Highlanders during the Clearances . . . has been well documented, while the Lowland experience has been relatively overlooked. Professor Tom Devine redresses this balance in his book, examining why both parts of Scotland responded so differently to the transformation of rural Scotland." --Scottish Art News