The Shieling, 1600-1840
Author: Albert Bil
Publisher: John Donald
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRead and Download eBook Full
Author: Albert Bil
Publisher: John Donald
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Heather Menzies
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Published: 2014-04-28
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 155092558X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommoning was a way of life for most of our ancestors. In Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good, author Heather Menzies journeys to her roots in the Scottish Highlands, where her family lived in direct relation with the land since before recorded time. Beginning with an intimate account of unearthing the heritage of the commons and the real tragedy of its loss, Menzies offers a detailed description of the self-organizing, self-governing, and self-informing principles of this nearly forgotten way of life, including its spiritual practices and traditions. She then identifies pivotal commons practices that could be usefully revived today. A final "manifesto" section pulls these facets together into a unified vision for reclaiming the commons, drawing a number of current popular initiatives into the commoning frame, such as local food security, permaculture, and the Occupy Movement. An engaging memoir of personal and political discovery, Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good combines moving reflections on our common heritage with a contemporary call to action, individually and collectively; locally and globally. Readers will be inspired by the book's vision of reviving the commons ethos of empathy and mutual respect, and energized by her practical suggestions for connection people and place for the common good. Heather Menzies is an award-winning writer and scholar and member of the Order of Canada. She is the author of nine books, including Whose Brave New World? and No Time.
Author: David Taylor
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Published: 2016-02-01
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1788853709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book tells the fascinating story of Badenoch, a forgotten region in accounts of Scottish history. Situated in the heart of the Highlands and with its own distinct historic and geographic identity, Badenoch was in the throes of dramatic change in the post-Culloden decades. This ground-breaking study reveals some radical differences from trends across the rest of the Highlands. Foremost was the role of the indigenous entrepreneurial tacksmen in driving the rapidly growing commercial economy as cattle graziers, drovers and agricultural improvers, inevitably provoking confrontation with the absentee and ostentatious Dukes of Gordon. Meanwhile, the common people still operated within a subsistence farming economy heavily dependent on a surprisingly sophisticated use of their mountain environment. Though suffering great hardship, they too were quick to exploit any potential commercial opportunities. Economic forces, social ambition and post-Culloden legislation created intolerable pressures within the old clan hierarchy, as Duke, tacksman and erstwhile clansman tried to forge their individual - and often irreconcilable - destinies in a rapidly changing world. In doing so, all were increasingly drawn into the wider, and often lucrative, dimensions of British state and empire.
Author: Michael Given
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780415369916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates the experience of the colonized in their landscape setting, and proposes an 'archaeology of taxation' to investigate the relationship between local community and central control.
Author: Robert A Dodgshon
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2015-05-19
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1474400752
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA survey of how Highland society organised its farming communities, exploited its resource base and interacted with its environment from prehistory to 1914
Author: T. C. Smout
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2007-09-15
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 0748637567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first modern history of Scottish woodlands, this highly illustrated volume explores the changing relationship between trees and people from the time of Scotland's first settlement, focusing on the period 1500 to 1920. Drawing on work in natural science, geography and history, as well as on the authors' own research, it presents an accessible and readable account that balances social, economic and environmental factors. Two opening chapters describe the early history of the woodlands. The book is then divided into chapters that consider traditional uses and management, the impact of outsiders on the pine woods and the oakwoods in the first phase of exploitation, and the effect of industrialization. Separate chapters are devoted to case studies of management at Strathcarron, Glenorchy, Rothiemurchus, and on Skye.
Author: Ian D. Whyte
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05-12
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 1317900014
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis splendid portrait of medieval and early modern Scotland through to the Union and its aftermath has no current rival in chronological range, thematic scope and richness of detail. Ian Whyte pays due attention to the wide regional variations within Scotland itself and to the distinctive elements of her economy and society; but he also highlights the many parallels between the Scottish experience and that of her neighbours, especially England. The result sets the development of Scotland within its British context and beyond, in a book that will interest and delight far more than Scottish specialists alone.
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2008-09-10
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1350306924
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJeremy Black sets the politics of eighteenth century Britain into the fascinating context of social, economic, cultural, religious and scientific developments. The second edition of this successful text by a leading authority in the field has now been updated and expanded to incorporate the latest research and scholarship.
Author: David Connolly
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2021-03-11
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 1789699312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes the results of a four-year research programme of archaeological works (2010-3), at the later prehistoric enclosure of White Castle, East Lothian. The excavations demonstrated a clear sequence of enclosure development over time, whereby the design and visual impact often appeared to be more important than defence alone.
Author: Eugene Costello
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1783275316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst full survey of how transhumance operated in Ireland from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth.