Originally published in 1980, this book examines the evolution of the Scottish landscape from pre-historic times to the mid-nineteenth century. It considers the way in which the structural base of agriculture and the changing farming system came to alter the Scottish rural landscape. This book, with its focus on the underlying landscape processes, gives a developmental view of landscape change. It therefore considers the crucial question of the rate and pace of landscape change and argues that the Scottish landscape was not the product of a few brief phases of quite rapid development but rather the result of a continual and gradual process of change. It also looks at the regional variation of landscape change and establishes the importance of regional linkages in the diffusion of ideas especially in new technology.
Part 1: The Early Countryside
1. Prehistoric Activity and its Effect on
the Scottish Landscape
2. Medieval Settlement and Colonisation
3. The Origins
of Traditional Field Systems
4. The Traditional Pastoral Economy A. Fenton
Part 2: Accelerated Change
5. The Emergence of the New Estate Structure
6.
The Pattern of Landholding in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
7. The Agents of
Agricultural Change
8. Changes in the Ext of Improved Farmland Part 3: The
Reshaped Countryside
9. The Reshaped Agricultural Landscape
10. The Mansion
and Policy
11. The Planned Villages
12. The Commercial Use of Woodland and
Coppice Management
13. The New Rural Industries: Water Power and Textiles
M. L. Parry and T. R. Slater
