The Making Of The Scottish Countryside

Author : M. L. Parry,T. R. Slater
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000394047

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The Making of the Scottish Countryside by M. L. Parry,T. R. Slater Pdf

Originally published in 1980, this book examines the evolution of the Scottish landscape from pre-historic times to the mid-nineteenth century. It considers the way in which the structural base of agriculture and the changing farming ‘system’ came to alter the Scottish rural landscape. This book, with its focus on the underlying landscape processes, gives a developmental view of landscape change. It therefore considers the crucial question of the rate and pace of landscape change and argues that the Scottish landscape was not the product of a few brief phases of quite rapid development but rather the result of a continual and gradual process of change. It also looks at the regional variation of landscape change and establishes the importance of regional linkages in the diffusion of ideas especially in new technology.

Author : David Turnock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351886123

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The Making of the Scottish Rural Landscape by David Turnock Pdf

This book looks at the evolution of rural settlement in Scotland from the Mesolithic period through to the improving movement of the 18th and 19th centuries. The main emphasis is on changes in society and technology, but the book also considers how the development of the physical landscape laid the foundation for such changes. The author strikes a balance between general perspectives (including relevant contextual materials such as the political structures) and local studies, with much emphasis on individual sites. Lack of documentation prior to the 10th century places particular importance on the archaeological evidence, but imaginative interpretation of this evidence has led to a major re-evaluation. Ideas emphasizing continuity of settlement and local adaptation are replacing older ’invasionist’ theories emphasizing Celtic war lords and broch-building pirates.

Author : David Turnock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015034537475

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The Making of the Scottish Rural Landscape by David Turnock Pdf

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of plates -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The physical environment -- 3 Scotland prior to the Iron Age -- 4 Iron Age forts and brochs -- 5 The Dark Ages: Picts, Scots and Vikings -- 6 Medieval Scotland -- 7 The improving movement -- 8 Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index

Author : R. N. Millman
Publisher : B. T. Batsford Limited
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015018646805

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The Making of the Scottish Landscape by R. N. Millman Pdf

Author : Thomas Martin Devine
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 1898410380

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Exploring the Scottish Past by Thomas Martin Devine Pdf

This is a collection of fifteen essays written over the last twenty years by one of Scotland's most eminent historians. The material concentrates on four broad themes in seventeenth-, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scottish history: Merchants, Unions and Trade; Scottish Economic Development; The Highlands; and the Rural Lowlands.

Author : Colin Shepherd
Publisher : Windgather Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781914427077

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The Late Medieval Landscape of North-east Scotland by Colin Shepherd Pdf

The landscape of the north-east of Scotland ranges from wild mountains to undulating farmlands; from cosy, quaint fishing coves to long, sandy bays. This landscape witnessed the death of MacBeth, the final stand of the Comyns earls of Buchan against Robert the Bruce and the last victory, in Britain, of a catholic army at Glenlivet. But behind these momentous battles lie the quieter histories of ordinary folk farming the land - and supping their local malts. Colin Shepherd paints a picture of rural life within the landscapes of the north-east between the 13th and 18th centuries by using documentary, cartographic and archaeological evidence. He shows how the landscape was ordered by topographic and environmental constraints that resulted in great variation across the region and considers the evidence for the way late medieval lifestyles developed and blended sustainably within their environments to create a patchwork of cultural and agricultural diversity. However, these socio-economic developments subsequently led to a breakdown of this structure, resulting in what Adam Smith, in the 18th century, described as 'oppression'. The 12th-century Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation and the Industrial Revolution are used here to define a framework for considering the cultural changes that affected this region of Scotland. These include the dispossession of rights to land ownership that continue to haunt policy makers in the Scottish government today. While the story also shows how a regional cultural divergence, recognized here, can undermine 'big theories' of socio-political change when viewed across the wider stage of Europe and the Americas.

Author : Rosemary Gibson
Publisher : John Donald Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123306032

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The Scottish Countryside by Rosemary Gibson Pdf

Making use of the extensive plans holdings of the National Archives of Scotland to illustrate the great change on the face of the country, this selection from the 100,000 plans shows the value of these sources for many aspects of Scotland's past and to display snapshots of the landscape through three centuries of change.

Author : Brian Bonnyman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748694693

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Third Duke of Buccleuch and Adam Smith by Brian Bonnyman Pdf

The third duke of Buccleuch (17461812) presided over the management of one of Britain's largest landed estates during a period of profound agrarian, social and political change. Tutored by the philosopher Adam Smith, the duke was also a leading patron of the Scottish Enlightenment, lauded by the Edinburgh literati as an exemplar of patriotic nobility and civic virtue, while his alliance with Henry Dundas dominated Scottish politics for almost 40 years. Combining the approaches of intellectual, economic and agrarian history, this book examines the life and career of the third duke, focusing in particular on his relationship with Adam Smith and the improvement of his vast Border estates, assessing the influence of Enlightenment thought on agricultural revolution. In its exploration of the cultural as well as the economic roots of Improvement and in its assessment of a previously unappreciated aspect of Smith's career, this book has appeal for both specialist scholars and general readers interested in the Scottish Enlightenment and the culture of Improvement in 18th-century Scotland.

Author : Mr Peter Bromley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136736889

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Countryside Management by Mr Peter Bromley Pdf

This management handbook explains the skills and systems needed by all those involved in managing the countryside. It deals with the process of management, national trends, establishing local policies and priorities, implementing schemes, as well as the legislation which surrounds countryside management.

Author : Graeme Morton
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748629534

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History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900 by Graeme Morton Pdf

This volume explores the experience of everyday life in Scotland over two centuries characterised by political, religious and intellectual change and ferment. It shows how the extraordinary impinged on the ordinary and reveals people's anxieties, joys, comforts, passions, hopes and fears. It also aims to provide a measure of how the impact of change varied from place to place.The authors draw on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, including the material survivals of daily life in town and country, and on the history of government, religion, ideas, painting, literature, and architecture. As B. S. Gregory has put it, everyday history is 'an endeavour that seeks to identify and integrate everything - all relevant material, social, political, and cultural data - that permits the fullest possible reconstruction of ordinary life experiences in all their varied complexity, as they are formed and transformed.'

Author : J.D. Fladmark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317762522

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Heritage by J.D. Fladmark Pdf

This volume deals with policy, methods and techniques for the stewardship of our land and our cultural assets. The focus is on interpretation and presentation of heritage themes, and the papers should be of interest to those concerned with school and university curricula, those working in museums and galleries, and those in charge of parks and tourist enterprises. Individual contributions celebrate achievements and debate issues relating to the natural and built environment, the future of green tourism, planning and interpretation in museums, parks and private estates. The authors include: Professor David Lowenthal on cultural landscapes; Charles McKean on architecture; David Macmillan on the arts; John Purser on music; Elisabeth Luard on cooking; the Earl of Glasgow on the opening of a family estate to the public; and Gordon Baxter on the heritage of one of Scotland's great enterprise stories in the food industry. The main theme of the book is that we do not always take enough pride in our heritage which is often undervalued and neglected. Positive action is required to raise awareness, to foster respect for our inheritance and to generate a new kind of enterprise that will not endanger the heritage resources on which we depend for enjoyment and jobs.

Author : Ian D. Whyte
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781861894533

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Landscape and History since 1500 by Ian D. Whyte Pdf

Landscape and History explores a complex relationship over the past five centuries. The book is international and interdisciplinary in scope, drawing on material from social, economic and cultural history as well as from geography, archaeology, cultural geography, planning and landscape history. In recent years, as the author points out, there has been increasing interest in, and concern for, many aspects of landscape within British, European and wider contexts. This has included the study of the history, development and changes in our perception of landscape, as well as research into the links between past landscapes and political ideologies, economic and social structures, cartography, art and literature. There is also considerable concern at present with the need to evaluate and classify historic landscapes, and to develop policies for their conservation and management in relation to their scenic, heritage and recreational value. This is manifest not only in the designation of particularly valued areas with enhanced protection from planning developments, such as national parks and world heritage sites, but in the countryside more generally. Further, Ian D. Whyte argues, changes in European Union policies relating to agriculture, with a greater concern for the protection and sustainable management of rural landscapes, are likely to be of major importance in relation to the themes of continuity and change in the landscapes of Britain and Europe.

Author : John R. Barrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Agricultural landscape management
ISBN : 178155398X

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The Making of a Scottish Landscape by John R. Barrett Pdf

The Making of a Scottish Landscape: Moray's Regular Revolution explores the making of the Moray countryside - and offers an intimate portrait of people in the landscape on the distant shoulder of northeast Scotland. The Making of a Scottish Landscape traces the progress through Moray of the craze for Improvement that swept through Scotland during the later eighteenth century. Moray's landowners applied Enlightenment rationalism to agricultural practice and the rural environment. The countryside was redesigned: from the fertile farmland of the coastal Laich of Moray, to the rugged highland whisky country of Strathavon and Strathspey. Lochs were drained and bogs reclaimed. Field scapes were re-planned. New crops were sown and new farming traditions took root. Naked moorland was clothed with forestry, or colonized by doughty settlers. Meanwhile, a Great Rebuilding regularized built environments to a neoclassical template, establishing new vernacular styles and a revolution in domestic comfort and convenience. Moray's land hungry husbandmen were willing recruits to their lairds' regular revolution; and even among landless cottars - displaced from traditional townships, transplanted to new villages, and proletarianized as agricultural laborers - there was scarcely a murmur of dissent.

Author : T. C. Smout
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780748637560

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History of the Native Woodlands of Scotland 1500-1920 by T. C. Smout Pdf

The 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 Whyte,Kathleen Whyte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000387889

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The Changing Scottish Landscape by Ian Whyte,Kathleen Whyte Pdf

Originally published in 1991 and focussing on the countryside, this book examines patterns of settlement and agriculture in Scotland and considers how these were increasingly altered during the 17th and 18th Centuries by the first Improvers and then by the more widespread impact of the Agricultural Revolution. It considers the effect on the landscape of the changing role of the church, the development of improved communications and the rise of new industries. The book analyses in detail the ways in which the landscape changed in Scotland’s transition from a medieval, impoverished country and an undeveloped economy to a modern society and one of the most highly urbanised countries in Europe.