1st Edition

A History of the Highland Clearances Emigration, Protest, Reasons

By Eric Richards Copyright 1985
562 Pages
by Routledge

562 Pages
by Routledge

562 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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

Biography

Eric Richards was Professor of History at Flinders University of South Australia