Set adrift upon the world : the Sutherland Clearances
Hunter, James, 1948-2015
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Place reservation for Set adrift upon the world : the Sutherland ClearancesThey 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. 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 which includes experiences which have not featured in any previous such account.
Main title:
Set adrift upon the world : the Sutherland Clearances / James Hunter.
Author:
Hunter, James, 1948-, author
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Birlinn, 2015.
Collation:
xix, 460 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour), maps (black and white) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781780272689 (hbk)
Dewey class:
333.3141152941.107333.314333.31333.31411941.1081941.152
LC class:
HD1511.G72
Local class:
333.314941.152333.3141333.31
Language:
English
Subject:
Land tenure -- Scotland -- Sutherland -- History -- 19th centuryForced migration -- Scotland -- Sutherland -- History -- 19th centuryEconomicsEconomicsSutherland (Scotland) -- History -- 19th centurySutherland (Scotland) -- Social conditions -- 19th centurySutherland (Scotland) -- Emigration and immigration
BRN:
1450012
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