No Stone Unturned: A History of Farming, Landscape and Environment in the Scottish Highlands and Islands - Couverture souple

Dodgshon, Robert A.

9781399563604: No Stone Unturned: A History of Farming, Landscape and Environment in the Scottish Highlands and Islands

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ISBN 10 : 1399563602 ISBN 13 : 9781399563604

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2026

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Explores the long history of the Highland countryside, addressing themes of landscape and environmental change from prehistory to 1914

Synthesises work on the Highland farming community during the medieval and early modern periods
Considers institutional organisation, resource exploitation, landscape impacts and interactions with environment
Provides the most substantive review of the continuity/discontinuity debate in the Highland landscape currently available.

Starting with prehistory, the book 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.

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� propos de l?auteur

Emeritus Professor Robert A. Dodgshon was formerly Gregynog Professor of Geography and Director of the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (now Aberystwyth University). His previous books include Land and Society in Early Scotland (1981), From Chiefs to Landlords: Social and Economic Change in the Western Highlands and Islands, c.1493-1820 (1998) and The Age of the Clans (2002).

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