Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Maps and Plates vii
4. Preface and acknowledgements viii
5. Maps xii
6. 1 The Tears of Patrick Sellar 1
7. 2 Elgin Days, 1780-1809 14
8. 3 Colonising Sutherland and the Dazzling Plans of 1809 34
9. 4 The Installation 63
10. 5 The New Clearances, 1811-12 83
11. 6 'The People's folly': Kildonan and Assynt, 1813 93
12. 7 Sellar and the Strathnaver Removals, 1814-15 114
13. 8 Mackid's Precognition in Strathnaver, May 1815 138
14. 9 Sellar Concussed 153
15. 10 Trial and Retribution 182
16. 11 The Dismissal 213
17. 12 Famine and the Final Clearances 224
18. 13 Heir to the Straths in the 1820s 246
19. 14 Sellar in his Prime 272
20. 15 Rational Principles 296
21. 16 The Frame of Society 324
22. 17 Death, Denunciation and Posterity 352
23. 18 The Tears of Progress 369
24. Notes 384
25. Bibliography 428
26. Index 435