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Set adrift upon the world : the Sutherland Clearances

Hunter,James2016
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They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were - thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned. Such were the Sutherland Clearances, an extraordinary episode involving the deliberate depopulation of much of a Scottish county during the early part of the 19th century.
Author:
Hunter,James, author
Imprint:
Edinburgh Birlinn 2016
Collation:
572p. : 20 cm.
ISBN:
9781780273549
Dewey class:
333.3141333.31411941.108333.314333.314115333.3
Local class:
333.3333.314
Language:
English
BRN:
1766214
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