A History of the Highland Clearances
Emigration, Protest, Reasons
1st Edition
Published on 5. August 2020
562 pages
978-1-000-08241-8 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1985, A History of the Highland Clearances: Volume 2 explores the various types of communal and intellectual responses, contemporary and retrospective, to the experience of the clearances. The first section considers the legacy of the two hundred years' debate about the Highland problem and the place of the clearances therein. The second section assesses the scale, range and timing of the emigrations of the Highlanders, as well as some of the motivations. The third section contemplates the direct popular response to the clearances, the collective memory and the tradition of physical resistance. The fourth section is about the career, trial and reputation of Patrick Sellar, which together embodied much of the social history, ruling ideas, and the necessary mythology of the clearances. The final section considers the fundamental economic problem of the Highlands in the age of the clearances, and the moral and economic alternatives that faced the community, the landlords, and the nation.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-000-08241-8 (9781000082418)
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Person
Eric Richards was Professor of History at Flinders University of South Australia
Content
Part One: The Effort to Understand; Part Two: Emigration and the Highland Clearances; Part Three: The Reaction from Below; Part Four: Patrick Sellar; Part Five: The Economics of the Highland Clearances
