John Prebble's book is an excellent treatise on the subject. It's available here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Highland-Cle.../dp/0140028374 . It's not too textbook-like and terribly informative.

To perhaps clarify my original post...
My intent was to illustrate how all too often aficionados of all-things-Scottish are under-informed regarding the Clearances.

Many can describe dozens of tartans down to the thread counts, but know bupkus about the translocation or transportion of entire regions of the Highlands - areas even today that are void of humans.

All too often Scotland is illustrated with tartan kitsch, Highlandism, Bravehearters, and Brigadoonery - all having origins in the mid 19th century. And even notables such as Sir Walter Scott were in complete agreement with turning the Highlands into a single vast sheep farm.

On the flip side, without the Clearances much of North America's, Australia's, and New Zealand's recent histories would be significantly different.

Don't let your knowledge of Scottish history stop at Culloden.

Slainte yall,
steve