Johnny Gibb of Gushetreuk by William Alexander

Johnny Gibb of Gushetreuk by William Alexander

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This novel tells of the struggle for democratic control which shattered the Kirk of Scotland in the great Disruption of 1843, and the parallel contest for control of the land between the lairds and capitalistic muckle farmers, cottars and small tenants who were seen as the last bastion of Scotland.

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Johnny Gibb of Gushetreuk by William Alexander

This novel tells of the struggle for democratic control which shattered the Kirk of Scotland in the great Disruption of 1843, and the parallel contest for control of the land between the lairds and capitalistic muckle farmers, cottars and small tenants who were seen as the last bastion of Scotland.
William Donaldson is a Scottish social historian and piper. Two of his earlier books, The Jacobite Song and Popular Literature in Victorian Scotland, received a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and the Thomas Blackwell Memorial Prize.
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ISBN 13 9781898410447
ISBN 10 1898410445
Title Johnny Gibb of Gushetreuk
Author William Alexander
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Birlinn General
Year published 2001-01-01
Number of pages 240
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