Patrick Sellar and the Highland Clearances: Homicide, Eviction and the Price of Progress

by Eric Richards

Book Overview

Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Award

In April 1816 Patrick Sellar was brought to trial in Inverness for culpable homicide for his treatment of the Highlanders of Strathnaver, the most northerly part of the Scottish highlands. In the process of evicting them from their ancient lands he had allegedly burnt houses, destroyed mills and wrecked pastures. There is perhaps no more hated nor reviled individual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1902930134
• ISBN13: 9781902930138
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"