A History of the Highland Clearances: Emigration, Protest, Reasons Richards Eric
A History of the Highland Clearances: Emigration, Protest, Reasons Richards Eric First published in 1985, A History of the Highland Clearances: Volume 2 explores the various types of communal and…
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A History of the Highland Clearances: Emigration, Protest, Reasons Richards Eric
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 second section assesses the scale, range and timing of the emigrations of the Highlanders, as well as some of the motivations. The first section considers the legacy of the two hundred years' debate about the Highland problem and the place of the clearances therein.
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 third section contemplates the direct popular response to the clearances, the collective memory and the tradition of physical resistance. The final section considers the fundamental economic problem of the