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No Stone Unturned

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

By: Robert Dodgshon

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No Stone Unturned

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

By: Robert Dodgshon

A survey of how Highland society organised its farming communities, exploited its resource base and interacted with its environment from prehistory to 1914There 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 nineteenth century and found repeated expression through a number of studies thereafter. However, its entrenchment in the literature was despite the fact that many ongoing studies have highlighted aspects of how the region changed from prehistory onwards. This study confronts this conflict over the question of continuity/discontinuity debate through an analysis of the cultural landscape. Starting with prehistory, it examines the way in which the farming community was organised: its institutional basis, its strategies of resource use and how these impacted on landscape, and the way in which it interacted with the challenges of its environment. It carries these themes forward through the medieval and early modern periods, rounding off the discussion with a substantive review of the gradual spread of commercial sheep farming and the emergence of the crofting townships over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Throughout, it draws out what changed and what was carried forward from each period so that we have a better understanding of the region's dynamic history, as opposed to the ahistorical views that inevitably flow from a stress on cultural inertia. Key Features:The book provides a one-stop text for the long-term history of the Highland countryside, one nuanced in ways that address topical themes like landscape and environmental change.It synthesises a great deal of work on the Highland farming community during the medieval and early modern periods in terms of its institutional organisation, resource exploitation, landscape impacts and interactions with environment so as to produce an overall review from prehistory down to 1914. Introduces new ideas and arguments that have not been treated or previewed in other published work, such as in chapter 6.Provides the most substantive review of the continuity/discontinuity debate in the Highland landscape currently available

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474403514

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Farming Communities in the Western Alps, 1500–1914

The Enduring Bond

By: Robert Dodgshon

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Farming Communities in the Western Alps, 1500–1914

The Enduring Bond

By: Robert Dodgshon

This monograph explores traditional farming communities in French-speaking areas of the western Alps for the period 1500-1914 and how they endured in such an environment despite the many problems and risks which it posed for their subsistence and welfare. Using an extensive amount of archival material drawn from the relevant regional archives, the book presents a great deal of fresh data. Its central theme is how such communities responded to the opportunities and challenges presented by the highly variegated environment of their setting. The view taken is that their strategies of exploitation stressed diversity and flexibility, mapping the highly varied ecologies and resource opportunities of their setting into these strategies by spreading livelihood and risk as widely as possible. This interpretative framework is developed across all the book's themes: landholding, arable and livestock sectors, use of the commons and, finally, how communities coped with climate-based risks. The book appeals to geographers, historians, environmental scientists and everyone interested in traditional farming communities and their long-term challenges.

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Springer

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303016361X

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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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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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Edinburgh University Press

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1474467784

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Alternative Capitalisms

Geographies of emerging regions

By: Robert Gwynne,Denis Shaw,Thomas Klak

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Alternative Capitalisms

Geographies of emerging regions

By: Robert Gwynne,Denis Shaw,Thomas Klak

This book aims to examine the effects of globalization and economic and political transformations in those parts of the world which are now regularly referred to as 'emerging regions'. These are Latin America and the Caribbean, East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union and East Asia. This book breaks new ground in three areas. First of all it develops a critique of the use of the term "emerging regions" for geographers and social scientists and relates this to world-systems theory. Secondly, it explores the development trajectories and challenges of countries in this so-called emerging world, countries that will be crucial to the evolution of the world economy in the twenty-first century. Thirdly, it compares and contrasts the pathways of both economic and political change in the three world regions under focus. This is a unique approach in terms of books published in both geography and the social sciences. Within the context of the three world regions, the book combines historical and contemporary analysis of the evolving world-system. In these regions we are concerned to understand the historical expansion and extension of capitalism and how its contemporary forms of production, exchange and regulation are evolving. The authors believe that at the present time these processes have produced 'alternative capitalisms' - economic and associated developments which, while assuredly capitalist, differ in various ways from those typical of the capitalist West or 'core economies' of North America and Western Europe.

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Routledge

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113465569X

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Society in Time and Space

A Geographical Perspective on Change

By: Robert A. Dodgshon

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Society in Time and Space

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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Juvenescence

A Cultural History of Our Age

By: Robert Pogue Harrison

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Juvenescence

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

Information Environmentalism

A Governance Framework for Intellectual Property Rights

By: Robert Cunningham

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Information Environmentalism

A Governance Framework for Intellectual Property Rights

By: Robert Cunningham

øInformation Environmentalism applies four environmental analytical frameworks _ ecology, Šthe commons�, public choice theory, and welfare economics _ to the information environment. The book neatly captures the metaphorical relationship between the ph

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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0857938444

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The Europeans

A Geography of People, Culture, and Environment

By: Robert Clifford Ostergren,Mathias Le Boss?

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The Europeans

A Geography of People, Culture, and Environment

By: Robert Clifford Ostergren,Mathias Le Boss?

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Guilford Press

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1609181409

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Collapsing Gracefully: Making a Built Environment that is Fit for the Future

By: Emilio Garcia,Brenda Vale,Robert Vale

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Collapsing Gracefully: Making a Built Environment that is Fit for the Future

By: Emilio Garcia,Brenda Vale,Robert Vale

This innovative book investigates the concept of collapse in terms of our built environment, exploring the future transition of modern cities towards scenarios very different from the current promises of progress and development. This is not a book about the end of the world and hopeless apocalyptic scenarios. It is about understanding change in how and where we live. Collapse is inevitable, but in the built environment collapse could imply a manageable situation, an opportunity for change or a devastating reality. Collapsing gracefully means that there might be better ways to coexist with collapse if we learn more about it and commit to rebuild our civilisations in ways that avoid its worst effects. This book uses a wide range of practical examples to study critical changes in the built environment, to contextualise and visualise what collapse looks like, to see if it is possible to buffer its effects in places already collapsing and to propose ways to develop greater resilience. The book challenges all agents and institutions in modern cities, their designers and planners as well as their residents and users to think differently about built environment so as to ease our coexistence with collapse and not contribute to its causes. .

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Springer Nature

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3030777839

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The Europeans

A Geography of People, Culture, and Environment

By: Robert C. Ostergren,Mathias Le Bossé

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The Europeans

A Geography of People, Culture, and Environment

By: Robert C. Ostergren,Mathias Le Bossé

This leading text offers a comprehensive, richly nuanced, and authoritative introduction to European geography. Coverage encompasses the entire region: its physical setting and environment, population and migration, languages and religions, and political organization. Particular attention is given to historic and contemporary features of the diverse urban environments in which most Europeans live, work, and play. Combining vivid description, essential information, and cogent analysis, the text is illustrated with more than 200 photographs and 64 maps. New to This Edition*Fully updated to reflect ongoing changes in this dynamic region.*Expanded coverage of timely topics such as emissions and energy policy, aging of the population, migration, religiosity and secularization, ethnonationalism, health care, popular culture, and the future of the European Union.*Engaging vignettes in every chapter on European places, cultural issues, and daily life.*Over 45 new photographs and maps.

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1609182448

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Kidnapped

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

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Kidnapped

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

This is the story of sixteen-year-old David Balfour, an orphan, who after being kidnapped by his villainous uncle manages to escape and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule

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0141910925

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No Stone Unturned

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

By: Robert A Dodgshon

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No Stone Unturned

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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Social and Economic Change in the Western Highlands & Islands

By: Robert A. Dodgshon

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The Age of the Clans

The Highlands from Somerled to the Clearances

By: Robert A. Dodgshon

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The Age of the Clans

The Highlands from Somerled to the Clearances

By: Robert A. Dodgshon

This is the first overview of Highland society ever to be written which covers the period from the rise of Somerled to the first clearances. The period has been chosen as one of considerably continuity and the book deals with four main themes – the changing political relationships and tensions within the region, the clans, their composition, alliances, strongholds and patterns of display the changes in settlement over time, and the economy of the Highlands and Islands. Most books on the Highlands concentrate either on crofting or on high politics, but without a full understanding of the dynamics of society, much of Highland history is difficult to comprehend. This book is not a dry economic narrative, but a lavishly illustrated story of a society in many ways unique in Europe, a story of feasting in great halls such as Dunvegan, of the galley fleets of the great lords, of strange pagan survivals in ritual and belief, and of a magnificent oral tradition. This is both a new and exciting view of a society too often dismissed either as a backward relic of the past or combed through for similarities with Scotland south of the Highland line.

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