Books by Eric Richards

This book argues the modern mass transit of ordinary people derives from common conditions in modernising societies and that they were first manifested in the British Isles. -- .

This book is recognised as a definitive work on the Highland Clearances.

A balanced assessment of Patrick Sellar, a vivid account of a terrible episode in Highland history, and a riveting narration of a tormented life.

In 1901 most Australians were loyal, white subjects of the British Empire with direct connections to Britain. Within a hundred years, following an unparalleled immigrationprogram, its population was one of the most diverse on earth. This book tells the story of this extraordinary transformation. -- .

Storm clouds always gather over the story of the Highland Clearances. The eviction of the Highlanders from the glens and straths of the Highlands and Islands of the north of Scotland still causes great historical dispute more than a century after the events. The Highland Clearances also generated a great deal of contemporary controversy and documentation. The record comes in diverse forms and with radically different provenances, offering excellent material for exercises in historical analysis and selection. Debating the Highland Clearances introduces the Highland Clearances as a classic historical problem. Eric Richards reviews the historical debate and examines the methods and sources employed by the combatants past and present. The debates among historians, novelists, politicians and economists are no less passionate today and raise major questions about interpretation and the appropriate frame of reference for the noisy and continuing public debate about the Highland Clearances. This book prese