04686nam a22005415i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001500172072001600187072002300203072001500226100008600241245010400327250001800431264006900449300006900518336002600587337002600613338003600639347002400675490005300699505055500752520217701307650002203484650002803506650003603534650003503570650005103605650003103656650002803687650003303715650003403748650004203782710003403824773002603858776003603884776003603920776003603956830006003992856004604052912001404098912001504112999001704127978-3-031-70871-8DE-He21320251030113241.0cr nn 008mamaa241023s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830317087189978-3-031-70871-87 a10.1007/978-3-031-70871-82doi 4aG1100?3102 7aRGL2bicssc 7aSCI0300002bisacsh 7aRGL2thema1 aDodgshon, Robert.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut98648614aThe Hebridean Worldh[electronic resource] :bIts Human Ecology Through Time /cby Robert Dodgshon.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Springer,c2024.  aXXIII, 272 p. 146 illus., 126 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aHistorical Geography and Geosciences,x2520-13870 aThe Hebrides: Their Physical Endowment and Its Challenges -- How the Earliest Human Communities Adapted to their Setting -- A Fusion of Cultures: the Picts, Scots and Vikings -- How Land was Occupied Before Crofting -- How Land was Farmed before Crofting -- Landscapes of Summer: the Shielings -- The Inter Tidal and Beyond: the Harvest of Sea and Shore -- The Harvesting and Processing of Grain -- Survival on the Margins -- Crofting: An Uncompromising Adaptation -- The Clearances for Sheep and Deer -- Hebridean Housing and Settlement -- Epilogue.  aThe Hebrides has long been seen as an area that, when considered over time, was slow to absorb change. Indeed, from the nineteenth century onwards, it attracted the attention of scholars for being seen as having not just the oldest rocks in Europe but also, some of its oldest cultural practices and institutional forms. This unchanging ‘archaic’ character has continued to attract a great deal of research but, over recent decades, a counter view has emerged that highlights the changes that the region did experience. This book argues the case for the latter by drawing out how the institutional forms around which the region and its farming communities were organised changed over time. As background. It highlights the importance of understanding two key inter-related features that underpinned these changes: the low output of Hebridean farming with its high frequency of poor harvests and the range of environmental hazards that beset the region. Brought together, the interaction between these two features makes the survival strategies adopted by communities an important part of the region’s history. Because society/environment interactions are at the heart of the problem, the book’s discussion is presented as a study in human ecology. One of the benchmark studies of the region in modern times, or Sir Fraser Darling’s The West Highland Problem: A Study in Human Ecology (OUP, 1955) adopted such an approach. This book gives this human ecological perspective on the region a greater time-depth. In addition to a Preface and an Epilogue, it is divided into 12 chapters: Title: The Hebridean World: Its Ecological History Through Time Preface 1: The Hebrides: Their Physical Endowment and Its Challenges 2: The Oldest Cultural Landscapes 3: The Hebridean Mix: Picts, Scots and Vikings 4: How Land was Occupied Before Crofting 5: How the Land was Farmed before Crofting 6: Landscapes of Summer: the Shielings 7: The Inter Tidal and Beyond: the Harvest of Shore and Sea 8:Survival on the Margins 9: The Landscapes of Crofting 10: The Harvesting and Processing of Grain 11: The Clearances for Sheep and Deer 12: Hebridean Housing and Settlement Epilogue. 0aGeography.962292 0aHuman geography.958506 0aEnvironmental geography.969017 0aHuman ecologyxHistory.965218 0aEnvironmental sciencesxSocial aspects.96605014aRegional Geography.96645124aHuman Geography.95850624aIntegrated Geography.96901824aEnvironmental History.96698624aEnvironmental Social Sciences.9660532 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303170870108iPrinted edition:z978303170872508iPrinted edition:z9783031708732 0aHistorical Geography and Geosciences,x2520-138797349740uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70871-8  aZDB-2-EES  aZDB-2-SXEE  c64426d64426