Debating The Highland Clearances

Author : Eric Richards
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748629580
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debating the Highland Clearances written by Eric Richards and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storm clouds always gather over the story of the Highland Clearances. The eviction of the Highlanders from the glens and straths of the Highlands and Islands of the north of Scotland still causes great historical dispute more than a century after the events. The Highland Clearances also generated a great deal of contemporary controversy and documentation. The record comes in diverse forms and with radically different provenances, offering excellent material for exercises in historical analysis and selection. Debating the Highland Clearances introduces the Highland Clearances as a classic historical problem. Eric Richards reviews the historical debate and examines the methods and sources employed by the combatants past and present. The debates among historians, novelists, politicians and economists are no less passionate today and raise major questions about interpretation and the appropriate frame of reference for the noisy and continuing public debate about the Highland Clearances. This book prese

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ISBN 13 : 9781280953170
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debating the Highland Clearances. Debates and Documents in Scottish History written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storm clouds always gather over the story of the Highland Clearances. The eviction of the Highlanders from the glens and straths of the Highlands and Islands of the north of Scotland still causes great historical dispute more than a century after the events. The Highland Clearances also generated a great deal of contemporary controversy and documentation. The record comes in diverse forms and with radically different provenances, offering excellent material for exercises in historical analysis and selection. Debating the Highland Clearances introduces the Highland Clearances as a classic historical problem. Eric Richards reviews the historical debate and examines the methods and sources employed by the combatants past and present. The debates among historians, novelists, politicians and economists are no less passionate today and raise major questions about interpretation and the appropriate frame of reference for the noisy and continuing public debate about the Highland Clearances. This book presents a representative anthology of documents illustrating the historical foundations on which the debate is built. The debate is set in context and the author explains why it is not only important for Scottish patriots but for history in general.

Author : Eric Richards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780367514464
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Highland Clearances written by Eric Richards and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Eric Richards
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857905244
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Highland Clearances written by Eric Richards and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Highland Clearances stands out as one of the most emotive chapters in the history of Scotland. This book traces the origins of the Clearances from the eighteenth century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s. In considering both the terrible suffering of the Highland people as well as the stark choices that faced landowners during a period of rapid economic change, it shows how the Clearances were one of many 'attempted' solutions to the problem of how to maintain a population on marginal and infertile land, and were, in fact, part of a wider European movement of rural depopulation. In drawing attention away from the mythology to the hard facts of what actually happened, The Highland Clearances offers a balanced analysis of events which created a terrible scar on the Highland and Gaelic imagination.

Author : Alexander Mackenzie
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752419962
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Highland Clearances written by Alexander Mackenzie and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The History of the Highland Clearances by Alexander Mackenzie

Author : Eric Richards
Publisher : Birlinn Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781780271651
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Highland Clearances written by Eric Richards and published by Birlinn Limited. This book was released on 2013 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first documented study of one of Scotland’s most emotive subjects for many years, this book traces the origins of the Clearances from the 18th century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s. This process of clearance was part of a wider European movement of rural depopulation, and Eric Richards describes the appalling conditions and treatment suffered by the Highland people. At the same time, however, he also illustrates how difficult the choices were that faced even the most benevolent 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 facts of what actually happened, this book offers a balanced analysis of events which created a terrible scar on the Highland and Gaelic imagination, the historical legacy of which still lies unresolved in the 21st century.

Author : Grant Dawson
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9004220542
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forcible Displacement Throughout the Ages written by Grant Dawson and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the anthropological, historical, and legal contours of the crime of forcible displacement and proposes specific measures that the international community can adopt in order to prevent and/or punish the perpetration of the crime in the future.

Author : George Neil Emery
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442644044
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elections in Oxford County, 1837-1875 written by George Neil Emery and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elections in Oxford County, 1837-75 is a unique exploration of the forms, practices, and issues of democracy in a mid-nineteenth-century colonial setting. In this case study of thirty-eight elections in Oxford County — first as part of the United Province of Canada, then in early Ontario — George Emery delves into the advances, setbacks, and flaws of a partially democratic system. Emery demonstrates that while its forms and issues evolved, the net amount of democracy remained stable over time. Elections in Oxford County, 1837-75 breaks new ground with its detailed treatment of the county's voice-vote method of election, which ended with the adoption of the secret ballot in 1874. Employing an idealized parliamentary democracy as an explanatory model, Emery captures both geographically specific details and general features of this era's electoral process to enrich current understandings of nineteenth-century Canadian democracy.

Author : Jo Guldi
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030025668X
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Land War written by Jo Guldi and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Long Land War tells the story of a global struggle to bring food, water, and shelter to all. Reviewing movements for giving reparations in land to formerly colonized people, marches to control the cost of rent for urban tenants, indigenous land movements, the machinations of development analysts, and the squatters who took matters into their own hands, the book traces the origins of modern proposals for state-engineered "land reform" from Ireland in 1881 through their assassination by the United States in 1974. 0 The book peers into the success and failure of postcolonial programs to protect small farmers in dialogue with the United Nations, World Bank, private institutions, and grassroots movements alike. Touching on the promise and pitfalls of modern ideologies-including international bureaucracies, market ideology, nonviolent protest, and participatory democracy-Jo Guldi provides a definitive narrative of land redistribution and offers an unflinching critique of its failures, working out the promise of politics for how we own property, govern, and adjudicate justice on a changing planet.

Author : Various
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780367514228
Total Pages : 1117 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Highland Clearances written by Various and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 1117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes draw the Highlands into the wider debate about the process of agrarian transformation and the consequeces of industrialisation through an exploration and examination of the early nineteenth century clearances.