James Hunter is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of the Highlands and Islands. He has written extensively about the north of Scotland and about the region’s worldwide diaspora. In the course of a varied career Hunter has been, among other things, director of the Scottish Crofters Union, chairman of Highlands and Islands Enterprise and an award-winning journalist. His book Set Adrift upon the World (Birlinn 2016) was Saltire History Book of the Year in 2016.
6 Ebooks by James Hunter
James Hunter: Set Adrift Upon the World
Winner of Saltire Scottish History Book of the Year
They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were – thousands of them, their communities destroyed, …
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€11.99
James Hunter: The Making of the Crofting Community
This book has been seminal in bringing to the fore the injustices that have been inflicted on the Highlands in the name of government and landlord – injustices often lost in the name of dry …
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English
€8.39
James Hunter: On the Other Side of Sorrow
Caring for the environment, developing rural communities and ensuring the survival of minority cultures are all laudable objectives, but they can conflict, and nowhere more so than the Scottish …
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English
€11.99
James Hunter: Insurrection
'A gripping, heart-breaking account of the famine winter of 1847' – Rosemary Goring, The Herald
Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize
When Scotland’s 1846 potato crop was wiped out by …
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English
€21.59
James Hunter: The Appin Murder
On a hillside near Ballachulish in the Scottish Highlands in May 1752 a rider is assassinated by a gunman. The murdered man is Colin Campbell, a government agent travelling to nearby Duror where he’s …
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English
€10.79
James Hunter: A Dance Called America
A dance was devised in eighteenth-century Skye. An exhilarating dance. A dance, a visitor reports, ‘the emigration from Skye has occasioned’. The visitor asks for the dance’s name. ‘They call it …
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English
€11.99
