Table of Contents

Part One: Leviathan of Wealth 1. The House of Sutherland 2. James Loch, 'The Sutherland Metternich' Part Two: The House of Sutherland and the Coming of the Railways 3. The Problematical inheritance 4. The Challenge and the Response 5. The Way of Compromise 6. A Position of Influence 7. The Edge of the Precipice 8.. A Golden Opportunity 9. Transport Capitalism in the Early 1830s 10. Uneasy Co-existence 11. Into and Out of the Vortex Part Three: The Sutherland Clearances 12. Sutherland and the Highland Problem 13. William Young and Patrick Sellar 14. The Reaffirmation of the Sutherland Policy 15. Capital, Labour and Prices in the New Economy 16. Progress, Poverty and Criticism 17. Famine and the Final Years Part Four: Perspectives 18. The Uses of an Aristocratic fortune

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Eric Richards