At Home in the Hills : Sense of Place in the Scottish Borders.

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 bor...

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Author / Creator: Gray, John.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2000.
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Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • 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.