Social distancing, hand hygiene and the use of personal protective equipment dominate the current fight against COVID-19. Provides the most substantive review of the continuity/discontinuity debate in the Highland landscape currently available.ĬHAPTER 1 Writing the History of Highland Farming, Landscape and EnvironmentĬHAPTER 4 the Late Medieval and Early Modern Landscape: Stasis or Change?ĬHAPTER 5 On the Eve of the Change: A Look through the Surveyor’sĬHAPTER 6 The Highland Toun through Time: AN INTERPRETATIONĬHAPTER 7 Landscapes of Change, 1750–c.1815: The Broadening EstateĬHAPTER 8 Landscapes of Sheep, Deer and Crofts: Change after c.The human coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is now a global pandemic.Introduces new ideas and arguments that have not been treated or previewed in other published work.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.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.

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. 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.

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.

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