Iona : : The Living Memory of a Crofting Community / / Mairi MacArthur.
The Hebridean island of Iona has been the focus of intense outside interest for over fourteen hundred years, from the time of St Columba's monastery in the sixth century through to the transfer of its renowned monuments into the care of Historic Scotland in the year 2000. Yet the people who liv...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Section I 1700-1800
- 1 Peopling the Landscape
- 2 The Age of Improvement
- Section II 1800-1845
- 3 The Making of the Crofts
- 4 Gathering Storms
- Section III 1846-1860
- 5 The Year the Potato went Away
- 6 Continuing Crisis
- 7 Adjustment at Home and Abroad
- Section IV 1860-1900
- 8 The Broadening of Horizons
- 9 A Voice for the Crofters
- 10 Custom and Community
- 11 The Iona Crowd, Out West and Down Under
- Section V 1700-1900
- 12 A School for Education
- 13 A Temple for Worship
- Section VI
- 14 Conclusion: Change and Continuity
- Select Bibliography
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Appendix III
- Appendix IV
- Index