The Sutherland Estate, 1850-1920 : : Aristocratic Decline, Estate Management and Land Reform / / Annie Tindley.
From the mid-nineteenth century until the end of World War I, the Sutherland Estate was the largest landed estate in western Europe; at 1.1 million acres, the ducal family owned almost the entire county of Sutherland as well as a further 30,000 acres in England. The estate was owned by the dukes of...
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Scottish Historical Review Monographs : SHRM
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. ‘The condition of its peasantry is wonderfully higher in every respect’: The Sutherland Estate, 1850–70
- 2. ‘A failure in every sense of the word’: The Sutherland Reclamations, 1869–93
- 3. ‘Agitation amounting to legalised coercion’: The Sutherland Estate, 1880–6
- 4. ‘Gladstone has much to answer for’: The Sutherland Estate, 1886–96
- 5. ‘Unstained were the diadems Cromarty wore’: The Sutherland Estate, 1897–1920
- 6. ‘Let them understand that they must submit to rule’: Clashmore and the Sutherland Estate, 1850–1909
- Conclusion: ‘Neither forgotten nor forgiven’
- Appendix: The Sutherland Estate Management, 1812–1920
- Bibliography
- Index