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Professor Eric Richards
PhD Nottingham, FAHA, FASSA, FR Hist S
Postal address:
Department of History
Faculty of Social Sciences
Flinders University
GPO Box 2100
Adelaide SA 5001
Australia
Telephone: (+61) (08) 8201 2813
Fax: (+61) (08) 8201 3350
Email: Eric.Richards@flinders.edu.au
Location: Room 217 Social Sciences South Building
Professor Richards is currently undertaking a number of
projects including a history of Australian immigration in the twentieth century
and is currently working on Malthus and the Uses of British Emigration;
the Australian Emigrant Letter; and Agrarian Transition, Migration in Australia.
He has had articles published in such journals as Journal of the Australian
Population Association (1998), Transactions of the Gaelic Society of
Inverness (2001), Labour History (1997), International Review
of Social History (1998), Population Studies (1998 and 1999), Journal
of Australian Studies (2008), Australian Journal of Irish Studies
(2002), New Zealand Books (2003)
Professor Richards' major historical publications include:
The Leviathan of Wealth. The Sutherland fortune in the Industrial Revolution,
London and University of Toronto Press, 1973
The Last Scottish Food Riots, Oxford, 1982
A History of the Highland Clearances: Vol I, Agrarian transformation and
the evictions, 1745-1886, London, 1982 (Book Prize of the Scottish Arts
Council)
A History of the Highland Clearances: Vol II, Emigration, Protest, Reasons,
London, 1985
(ed) The Flinders History of South Australia, 2 vols, Adelaide, 1986/7
Cromartie, Highland Life 1650-1914, with Monica Clough, Aberdeen, 1989
(ed) Poor Australian Immigrants in the Nineteenth Century, Canberra,
1991
(ed) Visible Women: Female Immigrants in Colonial Australia, Canberra,1995
(ed) The Australian Immigrant in the Twentieth Century, Canberra, 1998
Patrick Sellar and the Highland Clearances, Edinburgh, 1999 (Scottish
History Book of the Year)
The Highland Clearances: People, Landlords and Rural Turmoil, Edinburgh
2008
Britannia's Children. Emigration from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland
since 1600. London, 2004.
Debating the Highland Clearances, Edinburgh University Press 2007.
(ed) Speaking to Immigrants: Oral Testimony and the History of Australian
Immigration, Canberra, 2002.
He was a Research Affiliate of the Research School of Social Sciences, Institute
of Advance Studies, ANU 2002-5 and Adjunct Professor of History at Case Western
Reserve University, Ohio in 2004.
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