05008cam a2200733 a 4500 highlandclearanc0000rich CaSfIA 20250725125537.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 000329s2000 stkabf ob 001 0 eng 2001369303 (OCoLC)651935618 UKM eng STF UKV3G UKM DLC TXA NLGGC BAKER BTCTA YDXCP NZPPC GEQ BTN UBY OCLCF OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO OCL OCLCQ BUF OCLCQ GZM NJR OCLCQ CaSfIA GBA0Y4114 bnb GBA153587 bnb 1841580406 9781841580401 pcc e-uk-st HD1511.G72 H5367 2000 333.314115 21 15.70 bcl Richards, Eric, 1940- The Highland Clearances : people, landlords and rural turmoil / Eric Richards. Edinburgh : Birlinn, 2000. 1 online resource (xii, 379 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps) text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-369) and index. "This is the first fully-documented study of one of Scotland's most emotive subjects for many years. It traces the origins of the Clearances from the eighteenth century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s, showing how the process of clearance was part of a wider European movement of rural depopulation. Eric Richards describes the appalling conditions and treatment suffered by the Highland population, yet at the same time illustrates how difficult the choices were that faced even the most benevolent of landlords in the face of rapid economic change." "The Clearances were the most rugged and painful of many attempted 'solutions' to the problem of how to maintain a population on marginal and infertile land. In drawing attention away from the mythology to the hard fact of what really happened, The Highland Clearances offers a balanced analysis of events which created a terrible scar in the Highland and Gaelic imagination, the historical legacy of which still lies unresolved as we enter the twenty-first century."--Jacket. G1. The Distant Coronach -- 2. Classic Highland Clearances: Glencalvie and Strathconan -- 3. The Highland Clearances and Rural Revolution -- 4. Parallels and Precedents -- 5. The Quiet March of the Sheep -- 6. The Insurrection of 1792 -- 7. The Aftermath and the Widening Sheep Empire -- 8. Clearing Sutherland: Lairg, Assynt and Kildonan 1807-13 -- 9. Sensation in Stathnaver 18 14-16 -- 10. The Greatest Clearances: Strathnaver and Kildonan in 1818-19 -- 11. The Last of the Sutherland Clearances -- 12. Sweeping the Highlands: The Middle Years -- Lewis, Rum, Harris, Freswick and Strathaird (Skye) -- 13. Colonel Gordon, Barra and the Uists -- 14. Trouble in the Islands: The Macdonald Estates in North Uist, Benbecula and Skye -- 15. Frustrated Lairds and Bloody-Minded Crofters: Lewis, Durness and Coigach -- 16. Landlords Unrestrained: Knoydart and Greenyards -- 17. Nervous Landlords, 1855-86 -- 18. The Crofters' First Triumph -- 19. The Highland Clearances: Answers and Questions. Crofters Scotland Highlands History. Farm tenancy Scotland Highlands History 18th century. Farm tenancy Scotland Highlands History 19th century. Land tenure Scotland Highlands History 18th century. Land tenure Scotland Highlands History 19th century. Eviction Scotland Highlands History 18th century. Eviction Scotland Highlands History 19th century. Highlands (Scotland) Economic conditions. Crofters. fast (OCoLC)fst00883877 Economic history. fast (OCoLC)fst00901974 Eviction. fast (OCoLC)fst00917169 Farm tenancy. fast (OCoLC)fst00921264 Land tenure. fast (OCoLC)fst00991362 Scotland Highlands. fast (OCoLC)fst01242015 Verdrijving. gtt Ontvolking. gtt 1700-1899 fast History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Online version: Richards, Eric, 1940- Highland Clearances. Edinburgh : Birlinn, 2000 (OCoLC)651935618 https://archive.org/details/highlandclearanc0000rich Free eBook from the Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/books/OL4009192M Additional information and access via Open Library highlandclearanc0000rich ark:/13960/t0mt3d78r