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Record Nr.

UNINA9910494586203321

Autore

Gray John N.

Titolo

At home in the hills : sense of place in the Scottish borders / / John N. Gray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

0-85745-871-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Disciplina

941.3/7085

941.37085

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

Scottish Borders (Scotland) Social life and customs

Scottish Borders (Scotland) Rural conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



have engaged in armed raiding on the frontier with England, developed capitalist sheep farming in

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964785203321

Autore

Morton Adam

Titolo

On evil / / Adam Morton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-280-07775-1

0-203-70412-6

1-134-40610-X

0-203-35213-0

1-134-40611-8

1-283-96264-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Collana

Thinking in action

Disciplina

170

Soggetti

Good and evil

Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-148) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; On Evil; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Evil and Otherness: One; The Barrier Theory of Evil: Two; Nightmare People: Three; Facing Evil: Reconciliation: Four; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Evil has long fascinated psychologists, philosophers, novelists and playwrights but remains an incredibly difficult concept to talk about. On Evil is a compelling and at times disturbing tour of the many faces of evil. What is evil, and what makes people do awful things? If we can explain evil, do we explain it away? Can we imagine the mind of a serial killer, or does such evil defy description? Does evil depend on a contrast with good, as religion tells us, or can there be evil for evil's sake?Adam Morton argues that any account of evil must help us understand three things: w