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Hunter, James, 1948-
Subjects
Land tenure -- Scotland -- Sutherland -- History -- 19th century.
Forced migration -- Scotland -- Sutherland -- History -- 19th century.
Sutherland (Scotland) -- History -- 19th century.
Sutherland (Scotland) -- Emigration and immigration.
Sutherland (Scotland) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Highlands (Scotland) -- History -- 19th century.
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Hunter, James, 1948-
Land tenure -- Scotland -- Sutherland -- History -- 19th century.
Forced migration -- Scotland -- Sutherland -- History -- 19th century.
Sutherland (Scotland) -- History -- 19th century.
Sutherland (Scotland) -- Emigration and immigration.
Sutherland (Scotland) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Highlands (Scotland) -- History -- 19th century.
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Set adrift upon the world : the
Sutherland
Clearances / James Hunter.
by
Hunter, James, 1948-
Birlinn, 2015.
Call #:
941.15 H945s
Subjects
Land tenure
--
Scotland
--
Sutherland
--
History
--
19th century.
Forced migration
--
Scotland
--
Sutherland
--
History
--
19th century.
Sutherland
(
Scotland
)
--
History
--
19th century.
Sutherland
(
Scotland
)
--
Emigration
and
immigration
.
Sutherland
(
Scotland
)
--
Social conditions
--
19th century.
Highlands (
Scotland
)
--
History
--
19th century.
ISBN:
9781780272689 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Sutherland
Clearances
Description:
xix, 460 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, port. (colour) ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-449) and index.
Summary:
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 county. What was done in the course of that episode was planned and carried out by a small group of men and one woman. 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 they are by no means irrecoverable. In this book James Hunter tells the story of the
Sutherland
Clearances. His researches took him to archives in
Scotland
, England and Canada, to the now deserted straths of
Sutherland
, to the frozen shores of Hudson Bay. The result is a gripping, moving, definitive account of a people's struggle for survival in the face of tragedy and disaster.
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