People and Woods in Scotland : : A History / / T. C. Smout.
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 mamma...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2002] ©2002 |
Year of Publication: | 2002 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 89 B/W illustrations 89 black and white illustrations |
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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