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A remarkable new analysis of the shameful Highland clearances through the experience and effective defiance of one man.
Author : Andrew Ross
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 48,16 MB
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1398104272
A remarkable new analysis of the shameful Highland clearances through the experience and effective defiance of one man.
Author : Eric Richards
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 2007-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0748629580
Storm clouds always gather over the story of the Highland Clearances. The eviction of the Highlanders from the glens and straths of the Highlands and Islands of the north of Scotland still causes great historical dispute more than a century after the events. The Highland Clearances also generated a great deal of contemporary controversy and documentation. The record comes in diverse forms and with radically different provenances, offering excellent material for exercises in historical analysis and selection. Debating the Highland Clearances introduces the Highland Clearances as a classic historical problem. Eric Richards reviews the historical debate and examines the methods and sources employed by the combatants past and present. The debates among historians, novelists, politicians and economists are no less passionate today and raise major questions about interpretation and the appropriate frame of reference for the noisy and continuing public debate about the Highland Clearances. This book prese
Author : Lucille H. Campey
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 2008-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1550028111
In the late eighteenth century, Scottish emigration became an unstoppable force. Campey examines the causes of the exodus and traces the colonizers progress across Canada.
Author : Alexander Mackenzie
Publisher : Mercat Press Books
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 24,54 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The tragedy of the Clearances, brought about by cynical, often absentee landlords, is a black page in Scotland's history. Written while the effects it describes were still unfolding, Mackenzie's history brings the distress before the reader.
Author : Eric Richards
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 2012-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0857905244
The Highland Clearances stands out as one of the most emotive chapters in the history of Scotland. This book traces the origins of the Clearances from the eighteenth century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s. In considering both the terrible suffering of the Highland people as well as the stark choices that faced landowners during a period of rapid economic change, it shows how the Clearances were one of many 'attempted' solutions to the problem of how to maintain a population on marginal and infertile land, and were, in fact, part of a wider European movement of rural depopulation. In drawing attention away from the mythology to the hard facts of what actually happened, The Highland Clearances offers a balanced analysis of events which created a terrible scar on the Highland and Gaelic imagination.
Author : Eric Richards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 2020-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1000081613
First published in 1982, A History of the Highland Clearances looks at the forcible clearance of tenants from land they had farmed for centuries by landlords in the Highlands of Scotland in the early nineteenth century. It examines the general context of historical change, provides a full narrative of the clearances and offers a critical evaluation of the documentary sources upon which the entire story depends. By placing his subject in its historical perspective and into the context of the rest of Britain and Europe, Eric Richards vividly illustrates the realities of the Highland experience in the age of the clearances.
Author : Richards Eric Richards
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 12,60 MB
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : Crofters
ISBN : 1474472001
Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year AwardIn April 1816 Patrick Sellar was brought to trial in Inverness for culpable homicide for his treatment of the Highlanders of Strathnaver, the most northerly part of the Scottish highlands. In the process of evicting them from their ancient lands he had allegedly burnt houses, destroyed mills and wrecked pastures. There is perhaps no more hated nor reviled individual in Highland history. This outstanding new book, however, gives a balanced assessment of the man, a vivid account of a terrible episode in Highland history, and a riveting narration of a tormented life. Richard's book is an account of Sellar's life and times: that he was ruthless, avaricious, devious and cruel is beyond question. But his letters suggest a streak of idealism: did he really believe that the displaced highlanders would be better off, better fed, educated and housed in their new homes? Have the Highlands in the end become more productive and prosperous? In the course of his fast-moving and gripping account, Eric Richards looks carefully at these vexed questions.
Author : Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 22,69 MB
Release : 1854
Category : England
ISBN :
Author : Donald McLeod (of Sutherlandshire.)
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Land tenure
ISBN :
Author : George Bruce
Publisher : The Saltire Society
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,91 MB
Release : 2002
Category : English letters
ISBN : 9780854110780
In this work, Bruce and Scott have compiled a selection of Scottish letters covering eight centuries and involving many of the great historical, literary and political figures in Scotland's past.