The New Coastal History: Cultural And Environmental Perspectives From Scotland And Beyond Cultural And Environmental Perspectives From Scotland And Beyond

This Book Provides A Pathway For The New Coastal History. Our Littorals Are All Too Often The Setting For Climate Change And The Political, Refugee And Migration Crises That Blight Our Age. Yet Historians Have Continued, In Large Part, To Ignore The Space Between The Sea And The Land. Through A Range Of Conceptual And Thematic Chapters, This Book Remedies That. Scotland, A Country Where One Is Never More Than Fifty Miles From Saltwater, Provides A Platform As Regards The Majority Of Chapters, In Accounting For And Supporting The Clusters Of Scholarship That Have Begun To Gather Around The Coast. The Book Presents A New Approach That Is Distinct From Both Terrestrial And Maritime History, And Which Helps Brings Environmental History To The Shore. Its Cross-disciplinary Perspectives Will Be Of Appeal To Scholars And Students In Those Fields, As Well As In The Environmental Humanities, Coastal Archaeology, Human Geography And Anthropology. David Worthington, Editor. A Major Inspiration For This Volume Was The 'firths And Fjords' Conference, Which Took Place Here In Dornoch [scotland] In The Spring Of 2016.--page Xi. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Introducing the New Coastal History: Cultural and Environmental Perspectives from Scotland and Beyond (David Worthington)....Pages 3-30 The Urban Amphibious (Isaac Land)....Pages 31-48 The Firth of Forth: What Drives Change (T. C. Smout)....Pages 49-64 Front Matter ....Pages 65-65 Merchant Seamen, Sailortowns, and the Philanthropic Encounter in New York, 1843–1945 (Johnathan Thayer)....Pages 67-85 The Influence of Post-glacial Rebound on the Island Community of Hailuoto on the Northern Baltic Sea (Outi Korhonen)....Pages 87-98 Elvers and Salmon: Moral Ecologies and Conflict on the Nineteenth-Century Severn (Carl J. Griffin, Iain J. M. Robertson)....Pages 99-116 Front Matter ....Pages 117-117 Three Scottish Coastal Names of Note: Earra-Ghàidheal, Satíriseið, and Skotlandsfirðir (Andrew Jennings)....Pages 119-129 The Making of the Minch: French Pirates, British Herring, and Vernacular Knowledges at an Eighteenth-Century Maritime Crossroads (Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart)....Pages 131-148 Charity and Philanthropy in a Coastal World: Scottish Fishing Communities and the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners’ Royal Benevolent Society, 1839–1848 (Cathryn Pearce)....Pages 149-163 The Importance of Geography: The Experience and Commemoration of the Two World Wars in Shetland (Linda Riddell)....Pages 165-179 The Creation of Airline Services in the Northern and Western Isles of Scotland: Impact and Legacy (Andrew Rae)....Pages 181-196 Thurso and the Pentland Firth as a Site of Sport (Matthew L. McDowell)....Pages 197-214 Front Matter ....Pages 215-215 Scotland’s Forgotten Frontier Littoral: The Solway Firth (Edward J. Cowan)....Pages 217-232 Witch Belief in Scottish Coastal Communities (Lizanne Henderson)....Pages 233-249 A Rock with a View: Re-examining a 1680s View of the Bass Island (Amy Todman)....Pages 251-268 ‘...Of Which a Contraband Trade Makes the Basis of their Profit’: Tea Smuggling in the North Sea c. 1750–1780 (Derek Janes)....Pages 269-282 ‘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)....Pages 283-300 Back Matter ....Pages 301-307 This book provides a pathway for the New Coastal History. Our littorals are all too often the setting for climate change and the political, refugee and migration crises that blight our age. Yet historians have continued, in large part, to ignore the space between the sea and the land. Through a range of conceptual and thematic chapters, this book remedies that. Scotland, a country where one is never more than fifty miles from saltwater, provides a platform as regards the majority of chapters, in accounting for and supporting the clusters of scholarship that have begun to gather around the coast. The book presents a new approach that is distinct from both terrestrial and maritime history, and which helps brings environmental history to the shore. Its cross-disciplinary perspectives will be of appeal to scholars and students in those fields, as well as in the environmental humanities, coastal archaeology, human geography and anthropology. .-- Provided by publisher