The Poor Had No Lawyers - Andy Wightman

[Tony Gosling]

Emacs!


This is the sort of history we didn't get taught in school; probably 
because it has the capacity to stir the emotions at the way the 
Scottish poor became the Scottish dispossessed poor. It's fascinating 
reading, but it's also enough to make you want to storm the barricades!
hardback - http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Poor-Had-No-Lawyers/dp/1841589071/
paperback - http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Poor-Had-No-Lawyers/dp/1841589608/

Important new perspectives on Reformation 20 Aug 2011
By Alastair McIntosh
I just want to say well done, yet again, Andy Wightman, and what 
struck me as most significant about this book, given my own areas of 
research, is the new light that you shed on the manner in which 
Scottish landed power may have come so quickly over to the 
Reformation, not so much out of spiritual conviction, but because 
they saw a land grab in the carve-up of monastic properties. That 
takes Max Weber's Protestant ethic a step further by far!
My old friend William Kingston who was at Trinity, Dublin (you may 
recall he was cited in that Ecolgist paper we wrote many years ago 
with Dan Morgan) held the view, based on his monastic researches, 
that monasteries were the first corporations - the idea of corporate 
personhood having been devised to hand on property amongst 
communities of men and women who had renounced owning property 
privately. But the capitalist corporation usurped that principle. Now 
land is handed on via family companies and "trusts" while used as a 
tax dodge to write off as an "expense" the costs of running their 
sporting hobbies and holiday homes. The land rover goes down as a tax 
expense, as does, no doubt, the cost of the airline ticket to go and 
"manage" the festering pile (of peasant tenants). A travesty - you 
and I know because the likes of us get people ringing us up now and 
again in despair at having their lives messed around at the whim of 
some laird's narcisstic fancy. You have done sterling work in 
exposing it down the years. A knighthood to you when the Scottish 
Parliament is so empowered, I say! Go well

Product Description
Who Owns Scotland? How did they get it? What happened to all the 
common land in Scotland? Has the Scottish Parliament made any 
difference? Can we get our common good land back? In The Poor Had No 
Lawyers, Andy Wightman, author of Who Owns Scotland, updates the 
statistics of landownership in Scotland and takes the reader on a 
voyage of discovery into Scotland's history to find out how and why 
landowners got their hands on the millions of acres of land that were 
once held in common. He tells the untold story of how Scotland's 
legal establishment and politicians managed to appropriate land 
through legal fixes. From Robert the Bruce to Willie Ross and from 
James V to Donald Dewar, land has conferred political and economic 
power. Have attempts to redistribute this power more equitably made 
any difference and what are the full implications of the recent debt 
fuelled housing bubble? For all those with an interest in urban and 
rural land in Scotland, The Poor Had No Lawyers provides a 
fascinating and illuminating analysis of one the most important 
political questions in Scotland - who owns Scotland and how did they get it?
About the Author
Andy Wightman was born in Dundee and gained a degree in forestry at 
Aberdeen University. He has worked as a ghillie, environmental 
scientist, and an environmental campaigner before becoming a 
self-employed writer and researcher in 1993. He is the author of 
several books and a prominent analyst and critic of land reform 
process. He lives in Edinburgh. 
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