Urban Highlanders: Highland-Lowland Migration and Urban Gaelic Culture, 1700-1900This text offers a full-scale examination of the out-movement of migrant Highlanders from the Highlands to the urban Lowlands in the 18th and 19th centuries and of the migrant culture of urban Gaels within this new urban context. It follows work by the author on the historical geography of the Gaedhealtachd, the Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland. |
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The Transformation of Highland Life 16501900 | 23 |
Seasonal and Temporary HighlandLowland Migration | 61 |
The Geography of Permanent HighlandLowland Migration | 109 |
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Aberdeen amongst Argyll Boundary County Boundary County Boundary Campbeltown Census Census of Scotland cent crofters crofting Devine districts Dundee Edinburgh eighteenth century emigration employment enumerators evidence example Figure Gaelic and English Gaelic chapels Gaelic church Gaelic congregations Gaelic language Gaelic services Gaelic-speaking Gaelic-speaking population Gaidhealtachd geography Glasgow Highland Glasgow Highland Society Glasgow's Gaelic Greenock Highland community Highland County Highland migration Highland parishes Highland Perthshire Highland Society Highland-born population Highland-Lowland migration Inverness Inverness-shire Irish land large numbers London Lowland Scotland Lowland towns MacDonald male mobility moved movement N.B. Not shown nineteenth century north and west Number of persons numbers of Highlanders occupational Paisley Parish Boundary County parishes Partick patterns Perth Perthshire resident Ross and Cromarty Rothesay rural Scale of Miles Scottish Gaelic Scottish Highlands Skye social speaking Gaelic spoke Gaelic spoken Stirling Street Gaelic Chapel Sutherland temporary migration textile tion urban Gaelic urban Lowlands worship