George Sutherland of Riarchar
Author | : Elizabeth Robertson Mackay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 19 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Sutherland (Scotland) |
ISBN | : 9780950174501 |
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Author | : Elizabeth Robertson Mackay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 19 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Sutherland (Scotland) |
ISBN | : 9780950174501 |
Author | : James Hunter |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2015-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857902628 |
This true story of a mass eviction in nineteenth-century Scotland is “a moving, gripping, definitive account of a struggle for survival (Scots Magazine). A Saltire Society History Book of the Year They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were—thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned. Such were the Sutherland Clearances, an extraordinary episode involving the deliberate depopulation of much of a Scottish Highlands county. What was done in the course of it was planned and carried out by a small group of men and one woman, seeking a more profitable use of the land. Most of those involved wrote a great deal about their actions, intentions, and feelings, and much of it has been preserved. There are no equivalent collections of material from those whose communities ceased to exist. Their feelings and fears are harder to access, but by no means irrecoverable. In this book, James Hunter tells the story of the Sutherland Clearances. His research took him to archives in Scotland, England, and Canada, to the now deserted valleys of Sutherland, to the frozen shores of Hudson Bay. The result is a story of a people’s struggle for survival in the face of tragedy and disaster, covering experiences not featured in any previous such account. “Detailed and unsparing . . . . [The author] is careful to present the evidence for all he records.” —London Review of Books
Author | : Stana Nenadic |
Publisher | : John Donald Short Run Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
This book is a critical account of the social, economic and cultural experience of consumption and luxury of the Highlands. It looks at all classes and various professions, finally looking closely at the Highland gentry during a period of significant change. The subject is inspired by a commonly articulated moral criticism of the gentry – that they were more luxurious and feckless than similar groups elsewhere and that their conspicuous consumption ultimately ruined the Highland economy and destroyed Highland social relationships. The book contains both male and female experiences and expectations, using an anthropological approach to uncover the social meaning of the changing material environment that the Highland gentry inhabited – their houses, their clothing and their possessions. An anthropological perspective is also applied to the knowledge practices of the Highland gentry – what they knew; the processes whereby they came to posses that knowledge through education, professional training or life-experience; and the application of that ‘knowledge’ to the creation of their culture.
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Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1830 |
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Author | : Harvard University. Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Classification |
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Author | : David Eden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Dramatists, English |
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 650 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Union catalogs |
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Author | : Harvard University. Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Library catalogs |
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Total Pages | : 1052 |
Release | : 1816 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Library of Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Catalogs, Subject |
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