Finance: Property & Real Estate

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    The Highland Clearances: People, Landlords And Rural Turmoil - Eric Richards - Paperback
    The standard image of the Highland Clearances is of brutal eviction, of burning, starvation and barren wastes. This new book tracks the origins of the Clearances from the 18th century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1890s.
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    Highland Resistance: The Radical Tradition In The Scottish North - Iain Fraser Grigor - Hardback
    One of the issues to be addressed by Scotland's new parliament is land reform. Yet land reform is nothing new in the north of Scotland. The Highlands has a tradition of anti-landlord conflict that goes back two centuries.
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    The Little General And The Rousay Crofters: Crisis And Conflict On An Orkney Estate - William P. L. Thomson - Paperback
    This is the story of the island of Rousay during the dramatic years 1840 and 1890. Landlord Burroughs evicted any tenant that gave evidence to the Royal Commission whose findings led to the Crofters Act, requiring a gunboat's presence to keep the peace.
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    Our Scots Noble Families - Tom Johnston - Paperback
    Typeset in the style of the 1909 first edition, Our Scots Noble Families sold over 120000 copies even though it was banned by the John Menzies chain on the grounds that it was too political. The book combines humour with an acute political insight.
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    Scotland: Land And Power - A. D. Wightman - Paperback
    From the author of Who Owns Scotland, this is a controversial but closely argued presentation of the way forward for land reform in Scotland. Lesley Riddoch, radio and TV presenter, has written the foreword.
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    We Have Won The Land - John MacAskill - Paperback
    This gripping story of the crofters of Assynt tells of their success in winning the land and is told from their own experiences at the time and subsequently.
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    Who Owns Britain - Kevin M. Cahill - Paperback
    'Who Owns Britain' is a revealing examination of the nation's most valuable asset - its land. It reveals how aristocratic names who own millions of acres have maintained their grip on the land of Britain throughout the 20th century.
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    Who Owns Scotland Now?: The Use And Abuse Of Private Land - Auslan Cramb - Paperback
    In Who Owns Scotland Now? Auslan Cramb examines the use and abuse of private land. This book is both an insight into the closed world of the great landowners and a clarion call for change.
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    Who Owns The World: The Hidden Facts Behind Landownership - Kevin Cahill - Hardback
    'Who Owns the World' is a compilation of landowners and landownership structures in every single one of the world's 197 states and 66 territories. It covers the history of landownership as far as written history will allow and shows the division of landownership in every region of the globe.