At home in the hills : sense of place in the Scottish borders / / John N. Gray
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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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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2011] |
| ©2011 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 941.3/7085 |
| 941.37085 | |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Scottish Borders (Scotland) Social life and customs |
| Scottish Borders (Scotland) Rural conditions | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | At home in the hills |
| ISBN: | 0-85745-871-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808965003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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