03127nam 2200649 450 991080896500332120170816162743.00-85745-871-X10.1515/9780857458711(CKB)2550000001238822(EBL)1659359(SSID)ssj0001211449(PQKBManifestationID)11812556(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001211449(PQKBWorkID)11205366(PQKB)10282884(MiAaPQ)EBC1659359(DE-B1597)636783(DE-B1597)9780857458711(EXLCZ)99255000000123882220140421h20112011 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAt home in the hills sense of place in the Scottish borders /John N. GrayNew York :Berghahn Books,[2011]©20111 online resource (280 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-85745-179-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 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 Landlord and tenantScotlandScottish BordersHistory20th centuryRural familiesScotlandScottish BordersHistory20th centuryAgricultureScotlandScottish BordersHistory20th centuryFarm lifeScotlandScottish BordersHistory20th centuryFamiliesScotlandScottish BordersHistory20th centuryScottish Borders (Scotland)Social life and customsScottish Borders (Scotland)Rural conditionsLandlord and tenantHistoryRural familiesHistoryAgricultureHistoryFarm lifeHistoryFamiliesHistory941.3/7085941.37085Gray John N.79731MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808965003321At home in the hills4101114UNINA