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At home in the hills : sense of place in the Scottish borders / John N. Gray.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gray, John N., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landlord and tenant--Scotland--Scottish Borders--History--20th century.
- Landlord and tenant.
- Rural families--Scotland--Scottish Borders--History--20th century.
- Rural families.
- Agriculture--Scotland--Scottish Borders--History--20th century.
- Agriculture.
- Farm life--Scotland--Scottish Borders--History--20th century.
- Farm life.
- Families--Scotland--Scottish Borders--History--20th century.
- Families.
- Scottish Borders (Scotland)--Social life and customs.
- Scottish Borders (Scotland).
- Scottish Borders (Scotland)--Rural conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- To most outsiders, the hills of the Scottish Borders are a bleak and foreboding space - usually made to represent the stigmatized Other, Ad Finis, by the centers of power in Edinburgh, London, and Brussels. At a time when globalization seems to threaten our sense of place, people of the Scottish borderlands provide a vivid case study of how the being-in-place is central to the sense of self and identity. Since the end of the thirteenth century, people living in the Scottish Border hills have engaged in armed raiding on the frontier with England, developed capitalist sheep farming in
- Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 Reivers of the Marches; Chapter 2 Tenants on Landed Estates; Chapter 3 Sheep Farming in the Community; Chapter 4 Forms of Tenure; Chapter 5 Sheep and Land; Chapter 6 Hill Sheep and Tups; Chapter 7 Lamb Auctions; Chapter 8 Ram Auctions; Chapter 9 The Big House; Chapter 10 The Farmhouse; Afterword; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 21, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9780857458711
- 085745871X
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