David (Hrsg.) Worthington

The New Coastal History

Cultural and Environmental Perspectives from Scotland and Beyond

Buch

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 distin… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-319-64089-1
EAN: 9783319640891
Produktnummer: 23663334
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 307 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.3 cm x D2.3 cm 548 g
Abbildungen: Book; 14 schwarz-weiße und 3 farbige Abbildungen, Bibliographie
Gewicht: 548

Über den Autor

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.