Richards, Eric

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RICHARDS, Eric

RICHARDS, Eric. British/Australian, b. 1940. Genres: Demography, History. Career: University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, lecturer in economics, 1964-67; University of Stirling, Scotland, lecturer in history, 1967-72; Flinders University of South Australia, Bedford Park, professor of history, 1972-. Publications: The Leviathan of Wealth, 1973; The Last Scottish Food Riots, 1982; A History of the Highland Clearances, Vol. 1: Agrarian Transformation and the Evictions, 1746-1886, 1982, Vol. 2: Emigration, Protest, Reasons, 1985; (with M. Clough) Cromartie: Highland Life, 1650- 1914, 1989; Patrick Sellar and the Highland Clearances, 1999; The Highland Clearances: People, Landlords and Rural Turmoil, 2000; Britannia's Children: Emigration from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland until 1600, 2004. EDITOR: The Flinders History of South Australia, 1986; (with R. Reid and D. Fitzpatrick) Visible Immigrants, Department of History and Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies, Vol. 1: Neglected Sources for the History of Australian Immigration, 1989, Vol. 2: Poor Australian Immigrants in the Nineteenth Century, 1990, Vol. 4: Visible Women: Female Immigrants in Colonial Australia, 1995, Vol. 5: The Australian Immigrant in the 20th Century, 1998, Vol. 6: Speaking to Immigrants, 2002. Contributor of articles to academic journals; also contributor to books. Address: Flinders University of South Australia, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, Australia. Online address: [email protected]

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