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Standing On The Edge Of Being

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Author : Richard D. Oram
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Release Date : 2024-11-21

Standing On The Edge Of Being written by Richard D. Oram and has been published by Birlinn Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-21 with Science categories.

Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical record, this first environmental history of Scotland explores the interaction of human populations with the land, waters, forests and wildlife. This volume takes the reader from the mid nineteenth century to the present, confronting the 'Anthropocene' – the era where human action became a key driver of environmental and climatic change – and explores Scotland's experience of its consequences and costs. In the first half of the book, we chart a course through a century of decline and loss alongside the first serious efforts to curb and reverse the worst environmental impacts, from the filth-spewing cities and foul factory emissions of the lowlands to the degraded mountains, moorland and waters of the upland zones, In the second half, we trace the conflict between pressures to develop and to conserve, to go for economic growth or environmental protection, against the backdrop of mounting public awareness of an unfolding environmental disaster. We see how political compromises have failed to deliver security – for jobs or the environment – and how the toxic legacies of now-vanished industries have been left to the public purse to remediate. But, even now, all is not lost: this final volume of the exploration of the last two thousand years of Scotland's environmental history calls for deeper and wider public engagement in shaping a future vision for the nation.

A Land Won From Waste

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Author : Richard D. Oram
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Release Date : 2025-04-17

A Land Won From Waste written by Richard D. Oram and has been published by Birlinn Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-17 with History categories.

Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical record, this first environmental history of Scotland explores the interaction of human populations with land, waters, forests and wildlife. This volume takes the reader from the climatic highs of the Late Iron Age to the depths of the war-torn and plague-ravaged fourteenth century. Departing from traditional frameworks that divide Scotland's history into periods based on kings' reigns or major political events, discussion instead follows the major shifts in climate that divide these fourteen centuries into epochs, each with its own distinct characteristics. Starting amidst the fields and forests shaped across the eight millennia of Scotland's prehistory, where we encounter the imprint of past generations of hunters and gatherers, farmers and fishermen, as well as the legacies of climate impacts and pathogens, the book explores the depths of the Late Antique Little Ice Age and the long climb back to the 'Golden Age' of the twelfth- and thirteenth-century Medieval Climate Anomaly, to end with the slide through crop-failure, famine, war and disease of what is reputed to be the 'worst century in human history'.

Columba

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Author : Tim Clarkson
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn
Release Date : 2012-09-28

Columba written by Tim Clarkson and has been published by Birlinn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-28 with History categories.

St Columba is one of the most important figures in the early history of the British Isles. A native of Donegal and a nobleman of royal ancestry, his outstanding religious career spanned both sides of the Irish Sea. On the Scottish island of Iona he founded his principal monastery where he served as abbot until his death in AD 597. Iona eventually became the centre of a powerful federation of monasteries that preserved a memory of Columba and nurtured the saintly cult that grew around him. Drawing on contemporary sources – particularly the writings of Adomnán, abbot of Iona from 679 to 704 – and the latest modern research, this book traces Columba's achievements and legacy. It examines his roles as abbot, scholar and missionary as well as his involvement in the affairs of kings in both Ireland and northern Britain.

Loch Etive And The Sons Of Uisnach

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Author : Robert Angus Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879

Loch Etive And The Sons Of Uisnach written by Robert Angus Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with Etive, Loch (Scotland). categories.

The Quiver

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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891

The Quiver written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Periodicals categories.

V. 12 contains: The Archer...Christmas, 1877.

The Language And Literature Of The Scottish Highlands

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Author : John Stuart Blackie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876

The Language And Literature Of The Scottish Highlands written by John Stuart Blackie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with Highlands (Scotland) categories.