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No Stone Unturned: A History of Farming, Landscape and Environment in the Scottish Highlands and Islands
Robert Dodgshon
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Description for No Stone Unturned: A History of Farming, Landscape and Environment in the Scottish Highlands and Islands
Hardback. There has long been a view that the farming communities to be found in the Highlands prior to the Clearances were archaic forms. This study confronts this conflict over the question of continuity/discontinuity debate through an analysis of the cultural landscape. Num Pages: 320 pages, 12 b&w illustrations, 32 b&w line art. BIC Classification: 1DBKSH; HBL; HBTP; TV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 670.
This is a survey of how Highland society organised its farming communities, exploited its resource base and interacted with its environment from prehistory to 1914. There has long been a view that the farming communities to be found in the Highlands prior to the Clearances were archaic forms. The way in which they were organised, the way in which they farmed the land and the technologies which they employed were all seen as taking shape during prehistory and then surviving relatively unchanged. Such a view first emerged first during the late 19th century and found repeated expression through a number ... Read more
This is a survey of how Highland society organised its farming communities, exploited its resource base and interacted with its environment from prehistory to 1914. There has long been a view that the farming communities to be found in the Highlands prior to the Clearances were archaic forms. The way in which they were organised, the way in which they farmed the land and the technologies which they employed were all seen as taking shape during prehistory and then surviving relatively unchanged. Such a view first emerged first during the late 19th century and found repeated expression through a number ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474400749
SKU
V9781474400749
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Ref
99-15
About Robert Dodgshon
Robert A. Dodgshon was formerly Gregynog Professor of Geography and Director of the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences at Aberystwyth University.
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