The first modern history of Scottish woodlands explores the changing relationship between trees and people from the time of Scotland's first settlement, focusing on the period 1500 to 1920. Drawing on work in natural science, geography and history, as well as on the authors' own research, it presents an accessible and readable account that balances social, economic and environmental factors. Two opening chapters describe the early history of the woodlands. The book is then divided into chapters that consider traditional uses and management, the impact of outsiders on the pine woods and the oakwoods in the first phase of exploitation, and the effect of industrialisation. Separate chapters are devoted to case studies of management at Strathcarron, Glenorchy, Rothiemurchus and on Skye.
- ISBN10 6611252282
- ISBN13 9786611252281
- Publish Date 1 January 2007 (first published 17 November 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 7 March 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Edinburgh University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 465
- Language English