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Author Tindley, Annie.

Title The Sutherland Estate, 1850-1920 : aristocratic decline, estate management and land reform / Annie Tindley
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 190 pages)
Series Scottish historical review monographs series ; 18
Scottish historical review monographs series ; 18.
Contents Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One 'The condition of its peasantry is wonderfully higher in every respect': The Sutherland Estate, 1850-701; Chapter Two 'A failure in every sense of the word': The Sutherland Reclamations, 1869-93; Chapter Three 'Agitation amounting to legalised coercion': The Sutherland Estate 1880-61; Chapter Four 'Gladstone has much to answer for': The Sutherland Estate, 1886-961; Chapter Five 'Unstained were the diadems Cromarty wore': The Sutherland Estate, 1897-19201
Summary From the mid-nineteenth century until the end of World War I, the Sutherland Estate was the largest landed estate in western Europe; at 1.1 million acres, the ducal family owned almost the entire county of Sutherland as well as a further 30,000 acres in England. The estate was owned by the dukes of Sutherland, who were among the richest patrician landowners of the period; from the early nineteenth century, however, the family were shadowed by their reputation as great clearance landlords, something that would come back to haunt them throughout the coming decades. This book: *studies the workings of the estate management and policy formation in the face of challenges from their crofting tenants, the land reform lobby and government agencies; *asks whether the ducal family experienced a 'decline and fall' as argued for the British aristocracy generally in the period; *examines a crucial period of Highland history from the neglected perspective of an estate, using estate papers, newspapers, crofter sources, and government records. The Sutherland estate was the largest and most infamous clearance estate in Britain and this book will appeal to history scholars and general readers interested in estate management and the decline of the aristocracy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-185) and index
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Subject Sutherland family.
SUBJECT Sutherland family fast
Subject Administration of estates -- Scotland -- Sutherland -- History -- 20th century
Land use, Rural -- Scotland -- History -- 19th century
Aristocracy (Social class) -- Scotland -- History -- 19th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Administration of estates
Aristocracy (Social class)
Land use, Rural
Rural conditions
SUBJECT Sutherland (Scotland) -- History -- 19th century
Sutherland (Scotland) -- Rural conditions
Subject Scotland
Scotland -- Sutherland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780748642670
0748642676