The New Coastal History Cultural and Environmental Perspectives from
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
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The New Coastal History Cultural and Environmental Perspectives from Scotland and Beyond
The New Coastal History
David Worthington Editor
The New Coastal History Cultural and Environmental Perspectives from Scotland and Beyond
Editor David Worthington Centre for History University of the Highlands and Islands Dornoch, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-64089-1 ISBN 978-3-319-64090-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-64090-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017948683 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover credit: Beatrice Works Suite No7 – Assembly offshore, Moray Firth 2012, edition 20, chin colle and hand tinted watercolour 59 cm x 42 cm © Sue Jane Taylor Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Foreword
The periphery should never be underestimated, despite the slightly pejorative implication of the word. Coasts may be, as one contributor to this book calls them, ‘liminal, amphibious spaces’, but they can also be central. They were certainly central to the Neolithic peoples who built their great megalithic circles on islands and in coastal locations, perhaps before they moved inland. They were also central to the Vikings in their extraordinary voyages in Northern Europe, the North Atlantic and many places further south, including the Mediterranean littorals. But historians have tended to concentrate on inland spaces in terms of settlement, resource exploitation, and the establishment of power relationships. This innovative book brings coasts back into focus, illustrating their importance, not least in the many ways in which their inhabitants and their environments can be analysed in com
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