The Wild Black Region
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This book tells the fascinating story of Badenoch, a forgotten region in accounts of Scottish history. This ground-breaking study reveals some radical differences from trends across the rest of the Highlands. Economic forces, social ambition and post-Culloden legislation created intolerable pressures within the old clan hierarchy, as Duke, tacksman and erstwhile clansman tried to forge their individual – and often irreconcilable – destinies in a rapidly changing world.
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David Taylor graduated in Scottish Historical Studies from the University of Edinburgh, and gained a PhD from the University of the Highlands and Islands. After teaching history at Douglas-Ewart High School he was Principal Teacher of History and Modern Studies at Kingussie High School (Badenoch) for thirty years. Now retired, he lives in Orkney.
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"David Taylor has walked the ground he writes about. His intimate knowledge of that ground – from the banks of the Spey to the sites of long abandoned sheilings in high mountain corries – adds substantially to the force and persuasiveness of his account of a district whose history has for far too long been unexplored." —Professor James Hunter, University of the Highlands and Islands
"A well written ambitious, original and important contribution to the history of the Highlands." —Professor Eric Richards, Carnegie Centenary Professor 2014
