Set adrift upon the world : the Sutherland Clearances /: the Sutherland Clearances. (2015)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Set adrift upon the world : the Sutherland Clearances /: the Sutherland Clearances. (2015)
- Main Title:
- Set adrift upon the world : the Sutherland Clearances
- Further Information:
- Note: James Hunter.
- Authors:
- Hunter, James, 1948-
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Map 1: Northern Scotland; Map 2: Eastern Sutherland; Map 3: North America; Map 4: Manitoba; Some actors in the clearance drama; Introduction; 1 'Inhuman treatment'; 2 'Tribes that never saw Europeans before'; 3 'There should be blood'; 4 'Open and determined resistance'; 5 'Damned savages from Scotland'; 6 'When among wolves, howl!'; 7 'A most destructive and murderous fire'; 8 'He would be a very cruel man who would not mourn for the people'; 9 'A combination among the better sort' 10 'To find out and punish the leaders of the people'11 'Aborigines of Britain'; 12 'The year of the burnings'; 13 'Law is one thing and humanity may be another'; 14 'To seek shelter in some more propitious quarter of the world'; 15 'Indelible characters on the surface of the soil'; Appendix: Jessie and Gordon Ross; Acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Illustrations.
- Publisher Details:
- Edinburgh : Birlinn
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Copyright Date:
- 2015
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 333.314
Land tenure -- Scotland -- Sutherland -- History -- 19th century
Forced migration -- Scotland -- Sutherland -- History -- 19th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General
Emigration and immigration
Forced migration
Land tenure
Social conditions
Sutherland (Scotland) -- History -- 19th century
Sutherland (Scotland) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Sutherland (Scotland) -- Emigration and immigration
Scotland -- Sutherland
History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780857902627
0857902628 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 13, 2016). - 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.792448
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- 20_040.xml