Debating the Highland Clearances / / Eric Richards.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Richards, Eric,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Debates and Documents in Scottish History : DDSH
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Storm clouds always gather over the story of the Highland Clearances. The eviction of the Highlanders from the glens and straths of the Highlands and Islands of the north of Scotland still causes great historical dispute more than a century after the events. The Highland Clearances also generated a great deal of contemporary controversy and documentation. The record comes in diverse forms and with radically different provenances, offering excellent material for exercises in historical analysis and selection. Debating the Highland Clearances introduces the Highland Clearances as a classic historical problem. Eric Richards reviews the historical debate and examines the methods and sources employed by the combatants past and present. The debates among historians, novelists, politicians and economists are no less passionate today and raise major questions about interpretation and the appropriate frame of reference for the noisy and continuing public debate about the Highland Clearances. This book presents a representative anthology of documents illustrating the historical foundations on which the debate is built. The debate is set in context and the author explains why it is not only important for Scottish patriots but for history in general. Key FeaturesOrganised into two parts; the first considers debates surrounding the Clearances, the second examines a selection of the sources which inform these debatesPresents and analyses an anthology of source material compiled to introduce the debates surrounding the Highland Clearances to audiences learning about historical analysisAsks why passionate debate about the Clearances has been sustained and provides a modern introduction to its main issues

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Expanded Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- How to Use this Book -- Part I The Debate -- CHAPTER 1 Debating the Clearances -- CHAPTER 2 Before the Clearances -- CHAPTER 3 The Age of the Clearances -- CHAPTER 4 Protest and Resistance during the Clearances -- CHAPTER 5 The Blame Game -- Part II Documents -- Introduction to Documents -- Documents 1–82 -- Chronology -- Guide to Further Reading -- Essay Questions and Projects -- Works Cited in Text -- Glossary -- Statistical Tables -- Index