TY - JOUR AU - Buckley, Stefano PY - 2022/06/16 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Functioning and Alteration in Scottish Highland Farms during the First Phase of Clearance (c. 1775 - c. 1815) JF - the ascendant historian JA - TAH VL - 2 IS - SE - Articles DO - UR - https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/corvette/article/view/20802 SP - 5-11 AB - During the latter half of the 18th century and the early decades of the 19th, the traditional lifeways of farms in rural Highland Scotland underwent a drastic alteration. Hitherto operating in a community-focussed manner that had lasted for centuries, one bound up in notions of hereditary duty to clans and neighbours, this system became subject to a myriad of burgeoning changes both ideological and economic. Throughout the course of this paper, I will examine how these external influences reshaped the cultural and physical landscape of the Highlands, transforming a place that had once been directed towards self-sufficiency into one now dictated by the demands of an emerging capitalist marketplace. ER -