The Making of the Crofting CommunityDonald, 1976 - 309 pages |
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... raiders had come were seen slipping away from Park . ( 87 ) But more important than even hunger for food was hunger for land - a hunger intensified by the fact that many raiders , although landless themselves , were the sons or ...
... raiders had come were seen slipping away from Park . ( 87 ) But more important than even hunger for food was hunger for land - a hunger intensified by the fact that many raiders , although landless themselves , were the sons or ...
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... raiders ' motives and justifications were simple : ' While we were engaged in our country's battles , ( 131 ) said one man who had first applied for a holding in 1906 , promises without number were made that ... the land from which our ...
... raiders ' motives and justifications were simple : ' While we were engaged in our country's battles , ( 131 ) said one man who had first applied for a holding in 1906 , promises without number were made that ... the land from which our ...
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... raiders refused to budge , one of them remarking with understandable asperity : ' We don't care a damn for the Sheriff . We are soldiers . ' ( 167 ) Having been eventually arrested , six of the more defiant of the farms ' occupants were ...
... raiders refused to budge , one of them remarking with understandable asperity : ' We don't care a damn for the Sheriff . We are soldiers . ' ( 167 ) Having been eventually arrested , six of the more defiant of the farms ' occupants were ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Beginnings of Crofting 18001820 | 15 |
A Redundant Population 18211844 | 34 |
Copyright | |
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