The Stonemason
Subtitle: Donald Macleod's Chronicle of Scotland's Highland Clearances
Contributors: Douglas MacGowan (Editor)
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: May 30, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780275969479
Subjects: Biography: general; British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Rural communities; Social history; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History; History - General History; Business/Economics; History: World; Europe - General; Government - Comparative; Real Estate - Sales; History / Europe / General; Crofters; Eviction; Farm tenancy; Highlands; Scotland; Sources
First sentence: 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.