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Debating the highland clearances
Storm clouds always gather over the story of the Highland Clearances. The eviction of the Highlanders from the glens and straths of the Highlands and Islands of the north of Scotland still causes great historical dispute more than a century after the events. The Highland Clearances also generated a great deal of contemporary controversy and documentation. The record comes in diverse forms and with radically different provenances, offering excellent material for exercises in historical analysis and selection. Debating the Highland Clearances introduces the Highland Clearances as a classic historical problem. Eric Richards reviews the historical debate and examines the methods and sources employed by the combatants past and present. The debates among historians, novelists, politicians and economists are no less passionate today and raise major questions about interpretation and the appropriate frame of reference for the noisy and continuing public debate about the Highland Clearances.This book presents a representative anthology of documents illustrating the historical foundations on which the debate is built. The debate is set in context and the author explains why it is not only important for Scottish patriots but for history in general.Key Features:• Organised into two parts; the first considers debates surrounding the Clearances, the second examines a selection of the sources which inform these debates• Presents and analyses an anthology of source material compiled to introduce the debates surrounding the Highland Clearances to audiences learning about historical analysis• Asks why passionate debate about the Clearances has been sustained and provides a modern introduction to its main issues
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Land, Faith and the Crofting Community
Probes the deep-rooted links between the land, the people and the religious culture of the Scottish Highlands and Islands in the nineteenth century.
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No stone unturned : a history of farming, landscape and environment in the Scottish Highlands and Islands
A survey of how Highland society organised its farming communities, exploited its resource base and interacted with its environment from prehistory to 1914.
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The Highlands
Think of the Highlands as the \"backyard\" and \"backstop\" of the Philadelphia-New York-Hartford metroplex. A backyard that spans over three million acres across Pennsylvania, New York, and Connecticut, the Highlands serves as recreational open space for the metroplex's burgeoning human population. As backstop, Highlands' watersheds provide a ready source of high-quality drinking water for over fifteen million people.
The Highlandsis the first book to examine the natural and cultural landscape of this four-state region, showing how it's distinctive and why its conservation is vital. Each chapter is written by a different leading researcher and specialist in that field, and introduces readers to another aspect of the Highlands: its geological foundations, its aquifers and watersheds, its forest ecology, its past iron industry.
In the 1800s, the Highlands were mined, cutover, and then largely abandoned. Given time, the forests regenerated, the land healed, and the waters cleared. Increasingly, however, the Highlands are under assault again-polluted runoff contaminating lakes and streams, invasive species choking out the local flora and fauna, exurban sprawl blighting the rural landscape, and climate change threatening the integrity of its ecosystems.
The Highlandsmakes a compelling case for land use planning and resource management strategies that could help ensure a sustainable future for the region, strategies that could in turn be applied to other landscapes threatened by urbanization across the country. The Highlands are a valuable resource. And now, so isThe Highlands.
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Lunar Highland Preserves Meteoritic-iron-rich Materials in the Earth–Moon System
Meteoritic impacts over 4.5 billion yr have modified the composition and properties of the Earth and Moon’s surfaces. The low-iron lunar highlands (FeO ∼ 5 wt%) may provide insights into the contribution of meteoritic iron to the Earth–Moon system. However, it remains unclear whether the lunar highlands preserve the composition, distribution, and impact of the meteoritic iron. In this study, we identified 30 meteoritic iron-rich impact melts in the lunar highlands. These melts are characterized by young ages (mostly Copernican), low TiO2 content (<1 wt%), and relatively high FeO (>5–10 wt%). Importantly, the distributions of these impact melts are spatially correlated with the distribution of iron anomalies. This work provides geological evidence for the preservation of meteoritic iron in the lunar highlands. We also proposed that such meteoritic iron could represent potential sources of impact-related Fe–Ni anomalies on the Earth, such as Sudbury and Morokweng deposits.
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