Eugene Costello

Transhumance and the Making of Ireland's Uplands, 1550-1900

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First full survey of how transhumance operated in Ireland from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth.

Produktdetails

• Garden and Landscape History
• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 171mm x 239mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781837651474
• ISBN-10: 1837651477
• Artikelnr.: 68991382

Autorenporträt

Dr EUGENE COSTELLO is Lecturer in Environmental History at the Radical Humanities Laboratory in University College Cork, Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Seasonal movement and settlement in a world of pastoralism
Imagining movement: past and present views of transhumance in Ireland
Seasonal sites in context: summer pastures of the Carna peninsula Connected
places: home and booley in Gleann Cholm Cille over time Altitude and
adaptation: evolving seasonal settlement in the Galtee Mountains Herders
and historical forces, 1600-1900 Conclusion