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Society in Time and Space

A Geographical Perspective on Change

By: Robert A. Dodgshon

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A Geographical Perspective on Change

By: Robert A. Dodgshon

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Cambridge University Press

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0521596408

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9780521596404

No Stone Unturned

A History of Farming, Landscape and Environment in the Scottish Highlands and Island

By: Robert A Dodgshon

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A History of Farming, Landscape and Environment in the Scottish Highlands and Island

By: Robert A Dodgshon

A survey of how Highland society organised its farming communities, exploited its resource base and interacted with its environment from prehistory to 1914

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474400752

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From Chiefs to Landlords

Social and Economic Change in the Western Highlands & Islands

By: Robert A. Dodgshon

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From Chiefs to Landlords

Social and Economic Change in the Western Highlands & Islands

By: Robert A. Dodgshon

This new approach to Highland history before the Clearances draws attention to little-studied yet important economic and social processes within the Highland clan system and argues that we should consider the problems of traditional Highland society, economy and environment together. Exploring how the different aspects of the clan system - chiefs and kinsmen, landlords and tenants, farming systems, production strategies and marketing - changed between the 16th-18th centuries, it shows how the character and ideology of clans and chiefdoms are inextricably part of the twin problems of socio-political control and food production. Shifting the emphasis away from depictions of Highland society as lawless and disorganised, this is a welcome antidote to the many romanticised views of pre-Clearance society. Prize Winner! Honorable Mention - Frank Watson Scottish History Prize 1999

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279

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474467784

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Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland

By: Harriet Cornell,Julian Goodare,Alan R. MacDonald

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Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland

By: Harriet Cornell,Julian Goodare,Alan R. MacDonald

Showcases the latest research on Scotland's rural economy and society. Early modern Scotland was predominantly rural. Agriculture was the main occupation of most people at the time, so what happened in the countryside was crucial: economically, socially and culturally. The essays collected here focus on the years between around 1500 and 1750. This period, although before the main era of agricultural "improvement" in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, was nevertheless far from static in terms of agrarian development. Specific topics addressed include everyday farming practices; investment; landlords, tenants and estate management; and the cultural context within which agriculture was "imagined". The disastrous famine of 1622-23 is analysed in detail. The volume is completed by a comprehensive survey of recent historiography, setting agricultural history in its broader context.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1837650489

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9781837650484

Juvenescence

A Cultural History of Our Age

By: Robert Pogue Harrison

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A Cultural History of Our Age

By: Robert Pogue Harrison

How old are we, those of us who belong to the postwar era? By many measures, both evolutionary and cultural, we are older than ever. But we are also getting startlingly youngeryounger in looks, attire, behavior, mentality, desires. We belong, Robert Harrison says, to an age of juvenescence. "Juvenescence "is about the ways in which the spirits of youth and age have coexisted and shaped each other, both in individuals and culture, from the time of antiquity to the present. It is also a book that asks what it means for the future when youth gains the upper hand to the unprecedented degree it has today. Our way of aging, Harrison argues, resembles thethe scientific concept of "neoteny"the retention of immature characteristics into adulthood. We mature, but with a still tenacious youthfulness, driving drives toward innovation rather than reflection, genius rather than wisdom. At its best, human maturity has its source in the youth it brings to fruition. And yet our protracted youth, Harrison suggests, is a luxury that can be supported only by our elders and the institutions they build. Although Harrison believes, echoing Stephen Jay Gould, that our genius as a species lies in our collective reluctance to grow up, he argues that we are today in a phase of radical juvenalization that allows no space for the kind of wisdom that builds upon the past.

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University of Chicago Press

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022617199X

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9780226171999

No Stone Unturned

A History of Farming, Landscape and Environment in the Scottish Highlands and Island

By: Robert A Dodgshon

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A History of Farming, Landscape and Environment in the Scottish Highlands and Island

By: Robert A Dodgshon

A survey of how Highland society organised its farming communities, exploited its resource base and interacted with its environment from prehistory to 1914

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Society in Time and Space

Society in Time and Space

No Stone Unturned

No Stone Unturned

From Chiefs to Landlords

From Chiefs to Landlords

Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland

Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland

Juvenescence

Juvenescence

No Stone Unturned

No Stone Unturned

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