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UNINA9910494586203321 |
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Autore |
Gray John N. |
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Titolo |
At home in the hills : sense of place in the Scottish borders / / John N. Gray |
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New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2011] |
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©2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Landlord and tenant - Scotland - Scottish Borders - History - 20th century |
Rural families - Scotland - Scottish Borders - History - 20th century |
Agriculture - Scotland - Scottish Borders - History - 20th century |
Farm life - Scotland - Scottish Borders - History - 20th century |
Families - Scotland - Scottish Borders - History - 20th century |
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Scottish Borders (Scotland) Social life and customs |
Scottish Borders (Scotland) Rural conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 Reivers of the Marches; Chapter 2 Tenants on Landed Estates; Chapter 3 Sheep Farming in the Community; Chapter 4 Forms of Tenure; Chapter 5 Sheep and Land; Chapter 6 Hill Sheep and Tups; Chapter 7 Lamb Auctions; Chapter 8 Ram Auctions; Chapter 9 The Big House; Chapter 10 The Farmhouse; Afterword; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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To most outsiders, the hills of the Scottish Borders are a bleak and foreboding space - usually made to represent the stigmatized Other, Ad Finis, by the centers of power in Edinburgh, London, and Brussels. At a time when globalization seems to threaten our sense of place, people of the Scottish borderlands provide a vivid case study of how the being-in-place is central to the sense of self and identity. Since the end of the thirteenth century, people living in the Scottish Border hills |
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