Eric Richards
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748621828
- eISBN:
- 9780748672141
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748621828.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
Storm clouds regularly gather over the story of the Highland Clearances and show no sign of dispersing. After more than a century the historical dispute about the eviction of the Highlanders from the ...
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Storm clouds regularly gather over the story of the Highland Clearances and show no sign of dispersing. After more than a century the historical dispute about the eviction of the Highlanders from the glens continues unabated and unresolved. Debating the Highland Clearances introduces the Clearances as a classic historical problem: it focuses on the ways historians and others have approached the question and it concentrates on the methods and sources employed by the combatants. Half the book is devoted to a selection of documents which represent their main types of source material. Most of the book is about the perceptions, mentalities, politics and interpretations that dominate the noisy and continuing public debate about the Highland Clearances.Less
Storm clouds regularly gather over the story of the Highland Clearances and show no sign of dispersing. After more than a century the historical dispute about the eviction of the Highlanders from the glens continues unabated and unresolved. Debating the Highland Clearances introduces the Clearances as a classic historical problem: it focuses on the ways historians and others have approached the question and it concentrates on the methods and sources employed by the combatants. Half the book is devoted to a selection of documents which represent their main types of source material. Most of the book is about the perceptions, mentalities, politics and interpretations that dominate the noisy and continuing public debate about the Highland Clearances.
Eric Richards
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748621828
- eISBN:
- 9780748672141
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748621828.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
The first great surge of clearances began during the expansionary 1780s but then continued into the years of contraction and travail after Waterloo in 1815 when falling commodity prices squeezed all ...
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The first great surge of clearances began during the expansionary 1780s but then continued into the years of contraction and travail after Waterloo in 1815 when falling commodity prices squeezed all the previous optimism out of the Highland economy. The initial landlord assumption was that the people would be relocated and redeployed into new activities, usually along the coasts of the great estates. In the later phase the people were simply ousted without regard to alternative accommodation. The first step to eviction was the serving of a ‘Notice of Removal’ to a tenant. [35] The most infamous clearances entailed the wholesale displacement of traditional communities in sudden evacuations, but the exact circumstances were often complicated.Less
The first great surge of clearances began during the expansionary 1780s but then continued into the years of contraction and travail after Waterloo in 1815 when falling commodity prices squeezed all the previous optimism out of the Highland economy. The initial landlord assumption was that the people would be relocated and redeployed into new activities, usually along the coasts of the great estates. In the later phase the people were simply ousted without regard to alternative accommodation. The first step to eviction was the serving of a ‘Notice of Removal’ to a tenant. [35] The most infamous clearances entailed the wholesale displacement of traditional communities in sudden evacuations, but the exact circumstances were often complicated.
Sapana Doshi
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9789888139767
- eISBN:
- 9789888180714
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888139767.003.0009
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter investigates how evicted slum dwellers and their representative organizations advance new forms of environmental subjectivity. The author shows that these forms directly challenge the ...
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This chapter investigates how evicted slum dwellers and their representative organizations advance new forms of environmental subjectivity. The author shows that these forms directly challenge the notion of redevelopment and slum rehabilitation espoused through Mumbai's Slum Redevelopment Authority (SRA) housing scheme. This chapter examines slum redevelopment, especially the political struggles generated by periodic evictions. It provides a sustained account of the political ecology of urban social struggles around essential services and facilities. The poor always have to wrest from the government, their affluent neighbours and the relentless forces of urban commerce that would displace them.Less
This chapter investigates how evicted slum dwellers and their representative organizations advance new forms of environmental subjectivity. The author shows that these forms directly challenge the notion of redevelopment and slum rehabilitation espoused through Mumbai's Slum Redevelopment Authority (SRA) housing scheme. This chapter examines slum redevelopment, especially the political struggles generated by periodic evictions. It provides a sustained account of the political ecology of urban social struggles around essential services and facilities. The poor always have to wrest from the government, their affluent neighbours and the relentless forces of urban commerce that would displace them.
Sharon McConnell-Sidorick
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469632957
- eISBN:
- 9781469632971
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469632957.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter describes how hosiery workers went on the offensive against big business and government during the early years of the Great Depression while trying to aid those suffering the most. ...
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This chapter describes how hosiery workers went on the offensive against big business and government during the early years of the Great Depression while trying to aid those suffering the most. Hosiery workers joined with other unions and progressive organizations to form the Unemployed Leagues to stop the evictions of unemployed people, to assist with food and health care, and even birth control. In the course of a strike in 1930, the union lost its first martyr, Carl Mackley, and the ensuing memorial for this hero, attended by over 35,000 angry workers and residents of Kensington, raised the level of conflict for the remainder of the 1930s.Less
This chapter describes how hosiery workers went on the offensive against big business and government during the early years of the Great Depression while trying to aid those suffering the most. Hosiery workers joined with other unions and progressive organizations to form the Unemployed Leagues to stop the evictions of unemployed people, to assist with food and health care, and even birth control. In the course of a strike in 1930, the union lost its first martyr, Carl Mackley, and the ensuing memorial for this hero, attended by over 35,000 angry workers and residents of Kensington, raised the level of conflict for the remainder of the 1930s.
