Browsing Cultural and Historical Geography by Author "Dodgshon, Robert"

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Coping with Risk: Subsistence Crises in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, 1600–1800

Dodgshon, Robert (2004)

With their climatic variability and low crop yields, the Highlands and Islands formed a risk-laden environment for traditional farming communities. Yet whilst the major or exceptional famines between 1600 and 1800 are ...
Heather moorland in the Scottish Highlands: the history of a cultural landscape, 1600-1880

Dodgshon, Robert; Olsson, E. G. A. (2006-01)

The heather moorland of the Scottish Highlands represents a highly symbolic habitat for the region. Significantly, recent work by ecologists and palaeobotanists has stressed the strong anthropogenic role in its development. ...
In what way is the world really flat? Debates over geographies of the moment

Dodgshon, Robert (2008)

This paper highlights the role played by the specious present or moment, what some call the present of the now, in geographical discussions of social change. Its most explicit treatment as a temporal framing for such change ...
The Little Ice Age in the Scottish Highlands and Islands: documenting its human impact

Dodgshon, Robert (2005)

This paper examines the Little Ice Age in the Scottish Highlands and Islands and uses documentary evidence to show its impact on the farm economy. It has three sections. The first examines how Highland climate may have ...

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