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The Stonemason: Donald Macleod's Chronicle of Scotland's Highland Clearances (Hardcover)
by Eric Richards (Foreword), Donald Macleod (Author) "In the first years of the nineteenth century, the lands of Sutherlandshire were largely owned by Elizabeth Gordon, premier peeress of Scotland, who, in her..." (more)

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Hardcover: 144 pages
Publisher: Greenwood Press (30 May 2001)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0275969479
ISBN-13: 978-0275969479
Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 16.3 x 1.7 cm
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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,353,388 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, waves of tenant evictions swept through northern Scotland. Landlords replaced populated farms and villages with higher-revenue sheep farms. Stonemason Donald Macleod's collected writings chronicle the Clearances from the perspective of an evicted tenant.

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In the first years of the nineteenth century, the lands of Sutherlandshire were largely owned by Elizabeth Gordon, premier peeress of Scotland, who, in her own right, succeeded to the estates of her father William, the twenty-first Earl of Sutherland, with the title of Countess of Sutherland. Read the first page

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