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Patrick Sellar and the Highland Clearances : Homicide, Eviction and the Price of Progress /
Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year AwardIn April 1816 Patrick Sellar was brought to trial in Inverness for culpable homicide for his treatment of the Highlanders of Strathnaver, the most northerly part of the Scottish highlands. In the process of evicting them from their...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- 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
- 15 Rational Principles
- 16 The Frame of Society
- 17 Death, Denunciation and Posterity
- 18 The Tears of Progress
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index