James Hunter

Un clásico de lectura obligatoria para todo líder que esté buscando el éxito.En estas páginas, James Hunter nos explicará los principios universales del liderazgo que nos permiten colaborar con los demas, ya sea en el trabajo o en el ambito familiar, y como podemos mejorar la relacion que tenemos con nuestros subordinados partiendo de estas bases:No hay autoridad sin respeto.El respeto no se funda en el miedo, sino en la integridad, la sinceridad y la empatia con el projimo. No podemos cambiar a nadie, solo podemos cambiar nosotros. El trabajo lo hacen las personas, y no puede hacerse un buen trabajo sin cuidar las relaciones humanas. Este libro nos enseñara que dirigir consiste, paradojicamente, en servir a los demas, porque un buen lider debe esta pendiente de sus subordinados para atender sus legitimas necesidades, ayudarles a cumplir sus aspiraciones y aprovechar sus capacidades al maximo.

A gripping, heart-breaking account of the famine winter of 1847 - Rosemary Goring, The HeraldLonglisted for the Highland Book PrizeWhen Scotlands 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the country was plunged into crisis. In the Hebrides and the West Highlands a huge relief effort came too late to prevent starvation and death. Further east, meanwhile, towns and villages from Aberdeen to Wick and Thurso, rose up in protest at the cost of the oatmeal that replaced potatoes as peoples basic foodstuff.Oatmeals soaring price was blamed on the export of grain by farmers and landlords cashing in on even higher prices elsewhere. As a bitter winter gripped and families feared a repeat of the calamitous famine then ravaging Ireland, grain carts were seized, ships boarded, harbours blockaded, a jail forced open, the military confronted. The army fired on one set of rioters. Savage sentences were imposed on others. But thousands-strong crowds also gained key concessions. Above all they won cheaper food.Those dramatic events have long been ignored or forgotten. Now, in James Hunter, they have their historian. The story he tells is, by turns, moving, anger-making and inspiring. In an era of food banks and growing poverty, it is also very timely.

Caring for the environment, developing rural communities and ensuring the survival of minority cultures are all laudable objectives, but they can conflict, and nowhere more so than the Scottish Highlands. As environmentalists strive to preserve the scenery and wildlife of the Highlands, the people who belong there, and who have their own claims on the landscape, question this threat to their culture, which dates back thousands of years.In this acclaimed and thought-provoking book, James Hunter examines the dispute between Highlanders, who developed a strong environmental awareness countless generations before other Europeans, and conservationists, whose thinking owes much to the romantic ideals of the nineteenth century. More than that, he also suggests a new way of dealing with the problem, advocating drastic land-use changes and the repopulation of empty glens - an approach which has worldwide implications.

On a hillside near Ballachulish in the Scottish Highlands in May 1752 a rider is assassinated by a gunman. The murdered man is Colin Campbell, a government agent travelling to nearby Duror where hes evicting farm tenants to make way for his relatives. Campbells killer evades capture, but Britains rulers insist this challenge to their authority must result in a hanging. The sacrificial victim is James Stewart, who is organising resistance to Campbells takeover of lands long held by his clan, the Appin Stewarts.James is a veteran of the Highland uprising crushed in April 1746 at Culloden. In Duror he sees homes torched by troops using terror tactics against rebel Highlanders. The same brutal response to dissent means that Jamess corpse will for years hang from a towering gibbet and leave a community utterly ravaged.Introducing this new and updated edition of his account of what came to be called the Appin Murder, historian James Hunter tells how his own Duror upbringing introduced him to the tragic story of James Stewart.

This book has been seminal in bringing to the fore the injustices that have been inflicted on the Highlands in the name of government and landlord injustices often lost in the name of dry statistics and academic balance.Written by a man who has gone on to become both an award-winning historian of the Highlands and a leading figure in the public life of the region, The Making of the Crofting Community has attracted praise, inspired debate, and provoked outrage and controversy over the years. This book remains necessary to challenge standard academic interpretations of the Highland past. Having long been one of the classics of Birlinns John Donald list, this revised and updated new edition includes a substantial new preface and an extensive reworking of the existing text.

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Journey from the Isle of Skye to the Deep South, to the Rockies and beyond. A dance was devised in eighteenth-century Skye. An exhilarating dance. A dance, a visitor reports, the emigration from Skye has occasioned. The visitor asks for the dances name. They call it America, hes told. Over a period of three centuries, many thousands of people left the islands and wider north of Scotland to make new lives across the sea. In this new edition of his acclaimed book, historian James Hunter follows in their footsteps from the Deep South to the Rockies and beyond to tell the story of the Highland impact on the New World. In doing so, he reveals how soldiers, explorers, guerrilla fighters, fur traders, lumberjacks, railways builders and settlers from Scotlands glens and islands contributed much to the USA and Canada. It is the story of how a hard-pressed people found in North America a land of opportunity. In this edition features a new introduction from James Hunter, where he reflects on what led him to embark on travels and researches that took him across a continent.

Winner of Saltire Scottish History Book of the Year They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were - thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned. Such were the Sutherland Clearances, an extraordinary episode, involving the deliberate depopulation of much of a Scottish county. What was done in the course of that episode was planned and carried out by a small group of men and one woman. Most of those involved wrote a great deal about their actions, intentions and feelings, and much of it has been preserved. There are no equivalent collections of material from those whose communities ceased to exist. Their feelings and fears are harder to access, but they are by no means irrecoverable. In this book James Hunter tells the story of the Sutherland Clearances. His researches took him to archives in Scotland, England and Canada, to the now deserted straths of Sutherland, to the frozen shores of Hudson Bay. The result is a gripping, moving, definitive account of a peoples struggle for survival in the face of tragedy and disaster which includes experiences which have not featured in any previous such account.