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The Highland Clearances: Homicide, Eviction, and the Price of Progress

Eric Richards

Paper, 224 pages, 20 b/w illus
ISBN: 978-0-7486-2183-5
$34.00

August, 2007
Cloth, 224 pages, 20 b/w illus
ISBN: 978-0-7486-2182-8
Edinburgh University Press
$110.00

The first installment in a new series, this book compiles a wide range of documents and interpretations of the debate surrounding the Highland Clearances, introducing excellent material for exercises in historical analysis and selection.

About the Author

Eric Richards is professor of history at Flinders University, Australia, and a fellow at the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

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