History of the Native Woodlands of Scotland, 1500-1920
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- Author(s) Smout, T C, Alan R MacDonald & Fiona Watson
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2005
- Pages 434pp; illus
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Place Published Edinburgh
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Interdisciplinary study using case studies and general reviews to explore the different ways in which trees and woods have been exploited, managed, celebrated, etc. Touches on areas such as oak tan bark; charcoal / iron production including Lorn Furnace Co; timber use in housing and ship construction; etc. Chapters include: 'Extent and character of the woods before 1500'; 'Extent and character of the woods, 1500-1920'; 'Woodland produce'; 'Woodland as pasture and shelter'; 'Trading and taking wood before 1800'; 'Managing the woods before 1700'; 'Outsiders and the woods I - the pinewoods'; 'Outsiders and the woods II - charcoal and tanbark'; 'Woodland management in an industrial economy, 1830-1920, and beyond'; 'Rothiemurchus, 1650-1900'; 'The Navy, Holyrood and Strathcarron in the seventeenth century'; 'The Irish and Glenorchy, 1721-40'; 'The Macdonald woods on Skye, 1720-1920'