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The Highland Clearances: People, Landlords and Rural Turmoil
The Highland Clearances People Landlords and Rural Turmoil Author:Eric Richards This is the first fully documented study for many years of one of Scotland's most emotive subjects. It traces the origins of the Clearances from the eighteenth century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s, showing how the process of clearance was part of a wider European movement of rural depopulation. Eric Richards de... more »scribes the appalling conditions and treatment suffered by the Highland people, yet at the same time illustrates how difficult the choices were that faced even the most benevolent landlords in the face of economic change.« less