People and Woods in Scotland : : A History / / T. C. Smout.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Smout, T. C.,
• MitwirkendeR: Armit, Ian,; Crone, Anne,; Dingwell, Christopher,; Foot, David,; House, Syd,; Mackenzie, Neil,; Mather, Alexander,; Ralston, Ian,; Smout, Chris,; Stewart, Mairi,; Tipping, Richard,; Watson, Fiona,; Worrell, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 89 B/W illustrations 89 black and white illustrations

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748607012);This is a history of the trees, woodlands and forests of Scotland and of the people who used them. It begins 11,500 years ago when the ice sheet melted and trees such as hazel, pine, ash and oak returned, bringing with them first birds and mammals and, soon after, the first hunter-gathering humans. The book charts and explains the almost complete withdrawal of tree cover in Scotland over the following millennia, considers the revival of forests and woodlands in the twentieth century, and ends by examining the changes under way now.The book is intended for everyone interested in Scotland's natural history. It calls on an expert in pollen analysis to examine ancient patterns of woodland distribution; on archaeologists to describe how wood was put to good purpose, especially for buildings; on historians and foresters to explain how trees and woods have been exploited and enjoyed over the ages: on ecologists to show how the histories of people and woods are inseparably linked in Scotland; and on a geographer to consider how the Scottish landscape may react to changing policy, attitudes, populations, and climate. The text is fully illustrated by maps and photographs, in colour and black and white. The book has appendixes listing the native and imported species of trees and shrubs in Scotland, and ends with an extensive guide to further reading arranged by subject."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Plates -- List o f Figures -- List of Colour Plates -- Introduction: Trees in Scottish Life -- 1 Living in the Past: Woods and People in Prehistory to 1000 BC -- 2 The Coming of Iron, 1000 BC to AD 500 -- 3 Sufficiency to Scarcity: Medieval Scotland, 500-1600 -- 4 Using the Woods, 1600-1850 (1) The Community Resource -- 5 Using the Woods, 1600-1850 (2) Managing for Profit -- 6 CA Nation of Planters5: Introducing the New Trees, 1650-1900 -- 7 The Twentieth Century: Forestry Takes Off -- 8 The Ecological Impact of Using the Woods -- 9 The Future -- Appendices -- Select Bibliography and Guide to Further Reading -- List of Contributors -- Index