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Patrick Sellar and the Highland clearances : homicide, eviction and the price of progress /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Richards, Eric, 1940-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Polygon at Edinburgh, [1999]
Subjects:
Sellar, Patrick, > 1780-1851.
Crofters > Scotland > Highlands > History.
Land tenure > Scotland > Highlands > History.
Eviction > Scotland > Highlands > History.
Highlands (Scotland) > History > 19th century.
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.