The Sutherland Estate, 1850-1920 : : Aristocratic Decline, Estate Management and Land Reform / / Annie Tindley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Tindley, Annie,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Scottish Historical Review Monographs : SHRM
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

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...

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