The estate factor in the age of the clearances
Richards, Eric2016
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In the past, Highland estate factors had a very bad reputation. ‘The Tyranny of the Factor’ was known all around the Highlands and the Hebrides. Landlords, often absentees, left the management of their huge estates in the hands of their factors, who were entrusted with great responsibilities and discretionary local power. Most notoriously the factors implemented the Clearances which generated so much anger across the north of Scotland. Factors were often tough, high-handed characters; but some were broken tools of their distant and unresponsive masters, the landlords. They presided over momentous and sometimes tragic changes – supervising the introduction of sheep farming, new crofting townships, managing the sporting tenants, and much else. Later they were required to rule over the mutinous crofter population that survived the Clearances. - See more at: http://www.theislandsbooktrust.com/store/books/the-highland-estate-factor-in-the-age-of-the-clearances/#sthash.9Kg2XwLr.dpuf
Main title:
The estate factor in the age of the clearances / Eric Richards.
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Imprint:
Edinburgh : Island Book Trust, 2016.
Collation:
xii, 379 p., [8] p. of plates : maps ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliography and index.
ISBN:
19074437039781907443701
Dewey class:
333.3141
Local class:
333.3141
Language:
English
Subject:
Crofters -- Scotland -- Highlands -- HistoryFarm tenancy -- Scotland -- Highlands -- History -- 18th centuryFarm tenancy -- Scotland -- Highlands -- History -- 19th centuryLand tenure -- Scotland -- Highlands -- History -- 18th centuryLand tenure -- Scotland -- Highlands -- History -- 19th centuryEviction -- Scotland -- Highlands -- History -- 18th centuryEviction -- Scotland -- Highlands -- History -- 19th centuryHighlands (Scotland) -- Economic conditions
BRN:
1643023
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