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- catalog abstract ""Patrick Sellar, fiercest advocate and enforcer of the Highland Clearances, is possibly the most hated man in Scottish history. It is said even now that the grass will not grow on his grave. In the first biography of Sellar ever published Eric Richards uses contemporary sources to reconstruct his life and times, telling a dramatic story that will allow the reader to rejudge the man - for better or for worse."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11442676.
- catalog coverage "Highlands (Scotland) History 19th century.".
- catalog coverage "Highlands (Scotland) History.".
- catalog coverage "Sutherland (Scotland) Biography.".
- catalog coverage "Sutherland (Scotland) History.".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Patrick Sellar, fiercest advocate and enforcer of the Highland Clearances, is possibly the most hated man in Scottish history. It is said even now that the grass will not grow on his grave. In the first biography of Sellar ever published Eric Richards uses contemporary sources to reconstruct his life and times, telling a dramatic story that will allow the reader to rejudge the man - for better or for worse."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 428-434) and index.".
- catalog description "List of maps and plates -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Maps -- 1. The tears of Patrick Sellar -- 2. Elgin days, 1780-1809 -- 3. Colonising Sutherland and the dazzling plans of 1809 -- 4. The installation -- 5. The new clearances, 1811-12 -- 6. 'The people's folly': Kildonan and Assynt, 1813 -- 7. Sellar and the Strathnaver removals, 1814-15 -- 8. Mackid's precognition in Strathnaver, May 1815 -- 9. Sellar concussed -- 10. Trial and retribution -- 11. The dismissal -- 12. Famine and the final clearances -- 13. Heir to the Straths in the 1820s -- 14. Sellar in his prime -- 16. Rational principles -- 16. The frame of society -- 17. Death, denunciation and posterity -- 18. The tears of progress -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 440 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Patrick Sellar and the Highland Clearances.".
- catalog identifier "1902930134 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "1902930142".
- catalog isFormatOf "Patrick Sellar and the Highland Clearances.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Edinburgh : Polygon at Edinburgh,".
- catalog relation "Patrick Sellar and the Highland Clearances.".
- catalog spatial "Highlands (Scotland) History 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Highlands (Scotland) History.".
- catalog spatial "Scotland Highlands".
- catalog spatial "Sutherland (Scotland) Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Sutherland (Scotland) History.".
- catalog subject "333.314115 21".
- catalog subject "Crofters Scotland Highlands History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "DA816.S45 R53 1999".
- catalog subject "Eviction Scotland Highlands History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Land tenure Scotland Highlands History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Sellar, Patrick, 1780-1851.".
- catalog subject "Sellar, Patrick.".
- catalog tableOfContents "List of maps and plates -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Maps -- 1. The tears of Patrick Sellar -- 2. Elgin days, 1780-1809 -- 3. Colonising Sutherland and the dazzling plans of 1809 -- 4. The installation -- 5. The new clearances, 1811-12 -- 6. 'The people's folly': Kildonan and Assynt, 1813 -- 7. Sellar and the Strathnaver removals, 1814-15 -- 8. Mackid's precognition in Strathnaver, May 1815 -- 9. Sellar concussed -- 10. Trial and retribution -- 11. The dismissal -- 12. Famine and the final clearances -- 13. Heir to the Straths in the 1820s -- 14. Sellar in his prime -- 16. Rational principles -- 16. The frame of society -- 17. Death, denunciation and posterity -- 18. The tears of progress -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog title "Patrick Sellar and the Highland clearances : homicide, eviction and the price of progress / Eric Richards.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".