Making of the Scottish Countryside
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1980
327 pages
978-0-7735-9430-2 (ISBN)
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Plates
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Course of Rural Change in Scotland
- The Early Countryside
- 1 Prehistoric Activity and its Effect on the Scottish Landscape
- 2 Medieval Settlement and Colonisation
- 3 The Origins of Traditional Field Systems
- 4 The Traditional Pastoral Economy
- Accelerated Change
- 5 The Emergence of the New Estate Structure
- 6 The Pattern of Landholding in Eighteenth-Century Scotland L. Timperley
- 7 The Agents of Agricultural Change
- 8 Changes in the Extent of Improved Farmland
- The Reshaped Countryside
- 9 The Reshaped Agricultural Landscape
- 10 The Mansion and Policy
- 11 The Planned Villages
- 12 The Commercial Use of Woodland and Coppice Management J. M. Lindsay
- 13 The New Rural Industries: Water Power and Textiles
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
