1st Edition
A History of the Highland Clearances Agrarian Transformation and the Evictions 1746-1886
By Eric Richards
Copyright 1982
556 Pages
by
Routledge
556 Pages
by
Routledge
556 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1982, A History of the Highland Clearances looks at the forcible clearance of tenants from land they had farmed for centuries by landlords in the Highlands of Scotland in the early nineteenth century. It examines the general context of historical change, provides a full narrative of the clearances and offers a critical evaluation of the documentary sources upon which the... Read more
Part One: The Wider Framework; Part Two: Before the Clearances; Part Three: The Pattern of Pastoralism and Clearance; Part Four: Events - The Focus Narrowed
Biography
Eric Richards was Professor of History at Flinders University of South Australia
