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Set Adrift Upon The World The Sutherland Clearances James Hunter

SKU: BELL-54774582

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Publisher: Birlinn Limited

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 7.97 MB

Pages: 620

Author: James Hunter

ISBN: 9781839830303, 1839830301

Language: English

Year: 2021

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Set Adrift Upon The World The Sutherland Clearances James Hunter by James Hunter 9781839830303, 1839830301 instant download after payment.

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...