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The New Coastal History

Cultural and Environmental Perspectives from Scotland and Beyond

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Editors:
  1. David Worthington

    1. Centre for History, University of the Highlands and Islands, Dornoch, United Kingdom

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  • Explores the emergence of the ‘New Coastal History’, focusing on the experiences of coastal communities as distinct to those of landlocked or maritime settings

  • Interdisciplinary, bringing together a range of approaches, including environmental, cultural and political perspectives

  • Takes Scotland as a focus for study, while looking outwards to broader debates within coastal history and comparing coastal communities around the world

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Concepts in Coastal History From Scotland and Beyond

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introducing the New Coastal History: Cultural and Environmental Perspectives from Scotland and Beyond

      • David Worthington
      Pages 3-30

    3. The Urban Amphibious

      • Isaac Land
      Pages 31-48

    4. The Firth of Forth: What Drives Change

      • T. C. Smout
      Pages 49-64

  3. Coasts Beyond Scotland: Transcending Local and Global Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. Merchant Seamen, Sailortowns, and the Philanthropic Encounter in New York, 1843–1945

      • Johnathan Thayer
      Pages 67-85

    3. The Influence of Post-glacial Rebound on the Island Community of Hailuoto on the Northern Baltic Sea

      • Outi Korhonen
      Pages 87-98

    4. Elvers and Salmon: Moral Ecologies and Conflict on the Nineteenth-Century Severn

      • Carl J. Griffin, Iain J. M. Robertson
      Pages 99-116

  4. Coastscapes of The Scottish Highlands and Islands

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. Three Scottish Coastal Names of Note: Earra-Ghàidheal, Satíriseið, and Skotlandsfirðir

      • Andrew Jennings
      Pages 119-129

    3. The Making of the Minch: French Pirates, British Herring, and Vernacular Knowledges at an Eighteenth-Century Maritime Crossroads

      • Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart
      Pages 131-148

    4. 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

    5. The Importance of Geography: The Experience and Commemoration of the Two World Wars in Shetland

      • Linda Riddell
      Pages 165-179

    6. The Creation of Airline Services in the Northern and Western Isles of Scotland: Impact and Legacy

      • Andrew Rae
      Pages 181-196

    7. Thurso and the Pentland Firth as a Site of Sport

      • Matthew L. McDowell
      Pages 197-214

  5. Firths and Other Scottish Coasts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215
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    2. Scotland’s Forgotten Frontier Littoral: The Solway Firth

      • Edward J. Cowan
      Pages 217-232

    3. Witch Belief in Scottish Coastal Communities

      • Lizanne Henderson
      Pages 233-249

    4. A Rock with a View: Re-examining a 1680s View of the Bass Island

      • Amy Todman
      Pages 251-268
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About this book

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 bring 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. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for History, University of the Highlands and Islands, Dornoch, United Kingdom

    David Worthington

About the editor

David Worthington is Reader in History and Head of the Centre for History at the University of the Highlands and Islands, UK. He is author of British and Irish Experiences and Impressions of Central Europe, 1560-1688 (2012) and Scots in Habsburg Service, 1618-1648 (2003), and editor of British and Irish Emigrants and Exiles in Europe, 1603-1688 (2009).  More recently, he has published numerous articles on the coastal history of the north of Scotland. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The New Coastal History

  • Book Subtitle: Cultural and Environmental Perspectives from Scotland and Beyond

  • Editors: David Worthington

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64090-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64089-1Published: 27 October 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87720-4Published: 24 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64090-7Published: 17 October 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 307

  • Number of Illustrations: 16 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Historiography and Method, History of Britain and Ireland, Coastal Sciences, Social History, Environment Studies

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