Название: Flight of the Highlanders: The Making of Canada
Автор: Ken McGoogan
Издательство: Patrick Crean Editions
ISBN: 1443452599
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 368
Размер: 48,8 МБ
Язык: Английский
Bestselling author Ken McGoogan tells the story of those courageous Scots who, ruthlessly evicted from their ancestral homelands, were sent to Canada in coffin ships, where they would battle hardship, hunger and even murderous persecution.
After the Scottish Highlanders were decimated at the 1746 Battle of Culloden, the British government banned kilts and bagpipes and set out to destroy a clan system that for centuries had sustained a culture, a language and a unique way of life. The Clearances, or forcible evictions, began when landlords—among them traitorous clan chieftains—realized they could increase their incomes dramatically by driving out tenant farmers and dedicating their estates to sheep.