Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The Northern Highlands in the Nineteenth Century: 1800-1824
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The Northern Highlands in the Nineteenth Century
Author: James BarronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Northern Highlands in the Nineteenth Century: 1825-1841
Author: James BarronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Northern Highlands in the Nineteenth Century: 1842-1856
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Northern Highlands in the Nineteenth Century: 1800-1824
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The Northern Highlands in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Nineteenth Century
Author: The Nineteenth Century and After
Author: A History of the Highland Clearances
Author: Eric RichardsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000081613
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
First published in 1982, A History of the Highland Clearances looks at the forcible clearance of tenants from land they had farmed for centuries by landlords in the Highlands of Scotland in the early nineteenth century. It examines the general context of historical change, provides a full narrative of the clearances and offers a critical evaluation of the documentary sources upon which the entire story depends. By placing his subject in its historical perspective and into the context of the rest of Britain and Europe, Eric Richards vividly illustrates the realities of the Highland experience in the age of the clearances.
People of the Plow
Author: James McCannPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299146108
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
For more than two thousand years, Ethiopia’s ox-plow agricultural system was the most efficient and innovative in Africa, but has been afflicted in the recent past by a series of crises: famine, declining productivity, and losses in biodiversity. James C. McCann analyzes the last two hundred years of agricultural history in Ethiopia to determine whether the ox-plow agricultural system has adapted to population growth, new crops, and the challenges of a modern political economy based in urban centers. This agricultural history is set in the context of the larger environmental and landscape history of Ethiopia, showing how farmers have integrated crops, tools, and labor with natural cycles of rainfall and soil fertility, as well as with the social vagaries of changing political systems. McCann traces characteristic features of Ethiopian farming, such as the single-tine scratch plow, which has retained a remarkably consistent design over two millennia, and a crop repertoire that is among the most genetically diverse in the world. People of the Plow provides detailed documentation of Ethiopian agricultural practices since the early nineteenth century by examining travel narratives, early agricultural surveys, photographs and engravings, modern farming systems research, and the testimony of farmers themselves, collected during McCann’s five years of fieldwork. He then traces the ways those practices have evolved in the twentieth century in response to population growth, urban markets, and the presence of new technologies.