Patrick Sellar and the Highland Clearances : homicide, eviction, and the price of progress /: homicide, eviction, and the price of progress. ([2019?])

• Record Type: Book
• 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.