People and woods in Scotland
Subtitle: a history
By: edited by T.C. Smout.
Contributors: Smout, T. C.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Forests and forestry -- Scotland -- History.; Trees -- Utilization -- Scotland -- History.
Description: "This is a history of the trees, woodlands and forests of Scotland and of the people who used them. It begins 11,500 years ago when the ice sheet melted and trees such as hazel, pine, ash and oak returned, bringing with them first birds and mammals and, soon after, the first hunter-gathering humans. The book charts and explains the almost complete withdrawal of tree cover in Scotland over the following millennia, considers the revival of forests and woodlands in the twentieth century, and ends by examining the changes under way now."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-235) and index.
Table of contents: title: Trees in Scottish life / Chris Smout; title: Living in the past : woods and people in prehistory to 1000 BC / Richard Tipping; title: The coming of iron, 1000 BC to AD 500 / Ian Armit and Ian Ralston; title: Sufficiency to scarcity : medieval Scotland, 500-1600 / Anne Crone and Fiona Watson; title: Using the woods, 1600-1850. 1, The community resource ; Using the woods, 1600-1850. 2, Managing for profit / Mairi Stewart; title: "A nation of planters" : introducing the new trees, 1650-1900 / Syd House and Christopher Dingwell; title: The twentieth century : forestry takes off / David Foot; title: The ecological impact of using the woods / Richard Worrell and Neil Mackenzie; title: The future / Alexander Mather.