Livestock Production in the Scottish Highlands Before and After the Clearances

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12243273
AutoresRobert A Dodgshon (autor de correspondencia)
Año1998
Volumen9
Número1
Páginas19-42
Fecha de publicación1998-04-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaRural History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0956-7933 • E-ISSN: 1474-0656
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0956793300001424
OpenAlexW2054481683
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas6

Livestock production has long been important to the Highland economy, before no less than after the clearances for sheep that first spread across the region from the mid-eighteenth century onwards. However, key questions about how it may have developed over the century or so immediately prior to the clearances have still to be answered, as well as questions about how the clearances actually changed farm output. Using stocking data primarily for the southern Highlands and Islands, this paper proposes to examine four particular questions. First, by way of an introduction, it will briefly consider the role of stock within the traditional or pre-clearance township economy. Second, it will use detailed data for the closing decades of the sixteenth and first half of the seventeenth century to characterise the broad stocking balance of townships at the point when detailed figures first become available. Third, it will look at stocking figures for the eighteenth century with a view to establishing how livestock production may have altered during the century or so prior to the clearances. Fourth, and finally, it will consider how the clearances changed the character of livestock production

Agriculture · Animal husbandry · Archaeology · Business · Closing (real estate · Economics · Geography · Livestock · Production (economics · Stock (firearms · Stocking · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies of British Isles · Scottish History and National Identity · Forestry