No stone unturned : a history of farming, landscape and environment in the Scottish Highlands and Islands /

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. Starting with prehistory, the book examines the way in which the farming community was organised: its institutional basis, its strategies of...

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Tác giả chính: Dodgshon, R. A. (Robert A.) (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press [2015]
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g09z1n
Mục lục:
  • Writing the history of Highland farming, landscape and environment
  • The prehistoric footprint
  • Prehistory into history
  • The late medieval and early modern landscape : stasis or change?
  • On the eve of the change : a look through the surveyor's eye
  • The Highland Toun through time : an interpretation
  • Landscapes of change, 1750-c.1815 : the broadening estate
  • Landscapes of sheep, deer and crofts : change after c.1815
  • The years of change : an overview.