The new coastal history : cultural and environmental perspectives from Scotland and beyond /: cultural and environmental perspectives from Scotland and beyond. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by David Worthington.
• Editors: Worthington, David, 1971-
• Contents: Foreword; John M. MacKenzie.- Introducing the New Coastal History: Cultural and Environmental Perspectives from Scotland and Beyond; David Worthington.- The Urban Amphibious; Isaac Land .- The Firth of Forth: What Drives Change; T.C. Smout.- SECTION TWO – COASTS BEYOND SCOTLAND: TRANSCENDING LOCAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES.- Merchant Seamen, Sailortowns, and the Philanthropic Encounter in New York, 1843-1945; Johnathan Thayer.- The Influence of Post-Glacial Rebound on the Island Community of Hailuoto in the Northern Baltic Sea; Outi Korhonen.- Elvers and Salmon: Moral Ecologies and Conflict on the Nineteenth-Century Severn; Carl Griffin and Iain Robertson.- SECTION THREE – COASTSCAPES OF THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS.- Three Scottish Coastal Names: Earra-Ghàidheal, Satíriseið, and Skotlandsfirðir; Andrew Jennings.- The Making of the Minch: French Pirates, British Herring, and Vernacular Knowledges at an Eighteenth-Century Maritime Crossroads; Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart.- Charity and Philanthropy in a Coastal World: Scottish Fishing Communities and the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society, 1839-48; Cathryn Pearce.- The Importance of Coastal Geography: The Experience and Commemoration of the Two World Wars in Shetland; Linda Riddell.- The Creation of Airline Services in the Northern and Western Isles of Scotland: Impact and Legacy; Andrew Rae.- Thurso and the Pentland Firth as a Site of Sport; Matthew McDowell.- SECTION FOUR – FIRTHS AND OTHER SCOTTISH COASTS.- Scotland's Forgotten Frontier Littoral: The Solway Firth; Ted Cowan.- Witch Belief in Scottish Coastal Communities; Lizanne Henderson.- A Rock with a View: Re-examining a 1680s View of the Bass Island; Amy Todman.- '…Of Which a Contraband Trade Makes the Basis of their Profit': Tea Smuggling in the North Sea c.1750 – 1780; Derek Janes.- 'We Cannot See Them...They Have Gone Out of Our Reach': Narratives of Change in the Fisheries of Scotland's Great Firths, c.1770-1890; Peter Jones.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 333.917; Coasts -- History; Coasts -- Scotland
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319640907
• Related ISBNs: 9783319640891
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