The soap man : Lewis, Harris and Lord Leverhulme /
Hutchinson, Roger,1949-
Edinburgh : Birlinn,
2009.
In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial Lord Leverhulme bought - lock, stock and barrel - the Hebridean island of Lewis. His intention was to revolutionise the lives and environments of its 30,000 people, and those of neighbouring Harris, which he shortly added to his estate. For the next five years a state of conflict reigned in the Hebrides. Island seamen and servicemen returned from the war to discover a new landlord whose declared aim was to uproot their identity as independent crofter/fishermen and turn them into tenured wage-owne- rs. They fought back, and this is the story of that fight.
Economics.
History.
United Kingdom, Great Britain.
Originally published: 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-232) and index.
In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial Lord Leverhulme bought - lock, stock and barrel - the Hebridean island of Lewis. His intention was to revolutionise the lives and environments of its 30,000 people, and those of neighbouring Harris, which he shortly added to his estate. For the next five years a state of conflict reigned in the Hebrides. Island seamen and servicemen returned from the war to discover a new landlord whose declared aim was to uproot their identity as independent crofter/fishermen and turn them into tenured wage-owne- rs. They fought back, and this is the story of that fight.
Economics.
History.
United Kingdom, Great Britain.
Leverhulme, William Hesketh Lever, Viscount, 1851-1925.
Leverhulme, William Hesketh Lever, Viscount, 1851-1925.
Landowners
Land tenure
Land tenure.
Landowners.