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Table of Contents:

• List of maps and plates
• Preface and acknowledgements
• Maps
• 1. The tears of Patrick Sellar
• 2. Elgin days, 1780-1809
• 3. Colonising Sutherland and the dazzling plans of 1809
• 4. The installation
• 5. The new clearances, 1811-12
• 6. 'The people's folly': Kildonan and Assynt, 1813
• 7. Sellar and the Strathnaver removals, 1814-15
• 8. Mackid's precognition in Strathnaver, May 1815
• 9. Sellar concussed
• 10. Trial and retribution
• 11. The dismissal
• 12. Famine and the final clearances
• 13. Heir to the Straths in the 1820s
• 14. Sellar in his prime
• 16. Rational principles
• 16. The frame of society
• 17. Death, denunciation and posterity

• 18. The tears of progress
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.

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Author/Creator:

Richards, Eric, 1940-2018

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Patrick Sellar and the Highland clearances: homicide, eviction and the price of progress [by Richards, E.]

Subjects:

Sellar, Patrick, 1780-1851

Crofters — Scotland — Highlands — History

Land tenure — Scotland — Highlands — History

Eviction — Scotland — Highlands — History

Highlands (Scotland) — History — 19th century

1800-1899

Land tenure

Eviction

Crofters

Scotland — Highlands

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 428-434) and index.

Physical Description:

xi, 440 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

HD1511.G72 H537 1999

ISBNs:

1902930142
1902930134 (pbk.)

OCLC Numbers:

41961128