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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821096203321

Autore

Dodgshon Robert A.

Titolo

No stone unturned : a history of farming, landscape and environment in the Scottish Highlands and Islands / / Robert Dodgshon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2015

ISBN

9781474400756 (electronic book)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 pages)

Disciplina

630.94115

Soggetti

Agriculture - Scotland - Highlands - History

Islands - Scotland - History

Traditional farming - Scotland - Highlands - History

HISTORY / Europe / Western

Highlands (Scotland) Historical geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Writing the history of Highland farming, landscape and environment -- The prehistoric footprint -- Prehistory into history -- The late medieval and early modern landscape : stasis or change? -- On the eve of the change : a look through the surveyor's eye -- The Highland Toun through time : an interpretation -- Landscapes of change, 1750-c.1815 : the broadening estate -- Landscapes of sheep, deer and crofts : change after c.1815 -- The years of change : an overview.

Sommario/riassunto

A survey of how Highland society organised its farming communities, exploited its resource base and interacted with its environment from prehistory to 1914