Rough and Plenty

Explores the parallel processes of dispossession suffered by nineteenth-century Scottish crofters expelled from their ancestral lands during the Highland Clearances, and by the marginalization of coastal fishing communities in Nova Scotia. The book memorializes local ways of life that were destroyed by the forces of industrial production.

Exploreaza procesele paralele de deposedare suferite de crofters scotieni din secolul al XIX-lea expulzati de pe pamanturile lor ancestrale in timpul Highland Clearances si de marginalizarea comunitatilor de pescuit de coasta din Nova Scotia. Cartea comemoreaza modurile locale de viata care au fost distruse de fortele productiei industriale.