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The shieling captured the attention of eighteenth-century travellers and writers on agricultural improvement, and it is from these published documents that most of our information has been derived. But such accounts were often highly selective and heavily edited; the picture of Highland culture and life they paint is in many ways misleading. This important and original book offers a fresh perspective on the shieling based on estate papers and other unpublished sources. It places the shieling firmly within the wider agricultural framework of the Central Highlands, and examines its role in land improvement and the evolution of rural settlement patterns.
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'written with confident, professional style ... a valuable reservoir of new information and interpretative skills in social history' - Journal of Agricultural Economics
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- PublisherJohn Donald Short Run Press
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 190460725X
- ISBN 13 9781904607250
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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