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The Making of a Scottish Landscape: Moray´s Regular Revolution 1760-1840
John R. Barrett
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Paperback. How Lowland improvement and Highland clearances reshaped the Moray landscape - without distress or dissent Num Pages: 288 pages, 36 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKSH; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 470.
A Regular Revolution explores the making of the Moray countryside - and offers an intimate portrait of people in the landscape on the distant shoulder of northeast Scotland. A Regular Revolution traces the progress through Moray of the craze for Improvement that swept through Scotland during the later eighteenth century. Moray's landowners applied Enlightenment rationalism to agricultural practice and the rural environment. The countryside was redesigned: from the fertile farmland of the coastal Laich of Moray, to the rugged highland whisky country of Strathavon and Strathspey. Lochs were drained and bogs reclaimed. Fieldscapes were replanned. New crops were sown and ... Read more
A Regular Revolution explores the making of the Moray countryside - and offers an intimate portrait of people in the landscape on the distant shoulder of northeast Scotland. A Regular Revolution traces the progress through Moray of the craze for Improvement that swept through Scotland during the later eighteenth century. Moray's landowners applied Enlightenment rationalism to agricultural practice and the rural environment. The countryside was redesigned: from the fertile farmland of the coastal Laich of Moray, to the rugged highland whisky country of Strathavon and Strathspey. Lochs were drained and bogs reclaimed. Fieldscapes were replanned. New crops were sown and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fonthill Media
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Toadsmoor Road, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781553985
SKU
V9781781553985
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99-10
About John R. Barrett
John R. Barrett is a professional archivist, occasional archaeologist, historian, walker and cyclist who now lives scenically, with two cats, on Speyside in northeast Scotland. He has published original research into local history, Scottish history, archaeology, archive sources and historic landscapes. His study of the Civil War in Scotland, Elgin's Love-gift, and an edition of the memoirs of a seventeenth-century ... Read more
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