The Highland Clearances by Richards, Eric

The Highland Clearances (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781780273846)

Vendor: Eric Richards
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Format: Paperback
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The Highland Clearances by Richards, Eric

The Highland Clearances

$21.95
The Highland Clearances by Richards, Eric

The Highland Clearances

$21.95
Format: Paperback
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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
ISBN-10: 1780273843
ISBN-13: 9781780273846
Publisher: Birlinn
Language: English
Published: 08/06/2016
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.50d
By Eric Richards
By Eric Richards
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Eric Richards is a professor of history at Flinders University in Adelaide. His published work includes an acclaimed biography of Patrick Sellar, Patrick Sellar and the Highland Clearances: Homicide, Eviction and the Price of Progress, which was awarded the 1999 prize for Scottish History Book of the Year by the Saltire Society.

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