No Stone Unturned: A History of Farming, Landscape and Environment in the Scottish Highlands and Islands

Robert Dodgshon

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2015

No Stone Unturned

A History of Farming, Landscape and Environment in the Scottish Highlands and Islands

Robert Dodgshon

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474400756

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About this book

A one-stop text for the long-term history of the Highland countryside, one nuanced in ways that address topical themes like landscape and environmental change.

Starting with prehistory, the book examines the way in which the farming community was organised: its institutional basis, its strategies of resource use and how these impacted on landscape, and the way in which it interacted with the challenges of its environment. It carries these themes forward through the medieval and early modern periods, rounding off the discussion with a substantive review of the gradual spread of commercial sheep farming and the emergence of the crofting townships over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Throughout, it draws out what changed and what was carried forward from each period so that we have a better understanding of the region's dynamic history, as opposed to the ahistorical views that inevitably flow from a stress on cultural inertia.

Key Features:

Synthesises a great deal of work on the Highland farming community during the medieval and early modern periods in terms of its institutional organisation, resource exploitation, landscape impacts and interactions with environment so as to produce an overall review from prehistory down to 1914.
Introduces new ideas and arguments that have not been treated or previewed in other published work.
Provides the most substantive review of the continuity/discontinuity debate in the Highland landscape currently available.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	x
CHAPTER 1 Writing the History of Highland Farming, Landscape and Environment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 2 The Prehistoric Footprint Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
CHAPTER 3 Prehistory into History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
CHAPTER 4 the Late Medieval and Early Modern Landscape: Stasis or Change? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
CHAPTER 5 On the Eve of the Change: A Look through the Surveyor’s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
CHAPTER 6 The Highland Toun through Time: AN INTERPRETATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
CHAPTER 7 Landscapes of Change, 1750–c.1815: The Broadening Estate Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
CHAPTER 8 Landscapes of Sheep, Deer and Crofts: Change after c.1815 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
CHAPTER 9 The Years of Change: An Overview Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270
Select Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Illustrations
- Other: 12 B/W illustrations 32 B/W line art
Keywords: Scottish Studies

eBook

Published: May 19, 2015
ISBN: 9781474400756