Patrick Sellar and the Highland Clearances : homicide, eviction, and the price of progress /: homicide, eviction, and the price of progress. ([2019?])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Patrick Sellar and the Highland Clearances : homicide, eviction, and the price of progress /: homicide, eviction, and the price of progress. ([2019?])
- Main Title:
- Patrick Sellar and the Highland Clearances : homicide, eviction, and the price of progress
- Further Information:
- Note: Eric Richards.
- Authors:
- Richards, Eric, 1940-
- Contents:
- List of maps and plates -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Maps -- 1. The tears of Patrick Sellar -- 2. Elgin days, 1780-1809 -- 3. Colonising Sutherland and the dazzling plans of 1809 -- 4. The installation -- 5. The new clearances, 1811-12 -- 6. 'The people's folly': Kildonan and Assynt, 1813 -- 7. Sellar and the Strathnaver removals, 1814-15 -- 8. Mackid's precognition in Strathnaver, May 1815 -- 9. Sellar concussed -- 10. Trial and retribution -- 11. The dismissal -- 12. Famine and the final clearances -- 13. Heir to the Straths in the 1820s -- 14. Sellar in his prime -- 16. Rational principles -- 16. The frame of society -- 17. Death, denunciation and posterity -- 18. The tears of progress -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Publisher Details:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Copyright Date:
- 1999
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xi, 440 pages), illustrations, maps
- Subjects:
- 941.15073092
Land tenure -- Scotland -- Highlands -- History -- 19th century
Crofters -- Scotland -- Highlands -- History -- 19th century
Eviction -- Scotland -- Highlands -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
Crofters
Eviction
Land tenure
Sutherland (Scotland) -- Biography
Sutherland (Scotland) -- History
Highlands (Scotland) -- History
Highlands (Scotland) -- History -- 19th century
Scotland -- Highlands
Scotland -- Sutherland
Electronic books
Biographies
History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781474472005
1474472001 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781902930138
1902930134
1902930142
9781902930145 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 428-434) and index.
- Access Rights:
- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
- Access Usage:
- Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
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- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.591899
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