著者

松下 晴彦

出版者

英米文化学会

雑誌

英米文化 (ISSN:09173536)

巻号頁・発行日

no.28, pp.129-142, 1998-03-31

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After "the 45" (the failure of the Jacobite rebellion at Culloden), the Highlands came to face a enormous transformations. In a political aspect the British Government had done her best to make the Highlands not isolated from other parts of Britain. And in social and economical aspects the industrialization and capitalism / commercialism were marching into the Highlands. Various kinds of improvements or changes could have been seen in the Highlands since the second half of the eighteenth century. Now, I am picking up the Highland Clearances as one of the major causes that dissolved the clan society and altered the traditional way of life. When it comes to the Highland Clearances, it has been often said that the Sutherland Clearances were the most notorious, though it was never the typical Clearance. This paper surveys the Sutherland Clearances with social interests.