Book description
Description: A documented study of Scotland's most emotive
subjects. It traces the origins of the Clearances from the eighteenth
century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s,
showing how the process of clearance was part of a wider European
movement of rural depopulation.
Eric Richards is Professor of History at Flinders University,
Australia and previously taught at Stirling University, Scotland. His
published work includes an acclaimed biography of Patrick Sellar, which
was awarded the prize for Scottish History Book of the Year (1999) by
the Saltire Society.
