Robert A Dodgshon
Biographic Data
| ID | 329634 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert A Dodgshon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert A |
| FAMILY NAME | Dodgshon |
| SIGNATURE | DODGSHON R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aberystwyth University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 65 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 345 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 65 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
How Land Was Occupied Before Crofting
Weather-Based Disasters and Farming Communities in the Western Alps, 1650-1850
Because of the scale at which the key socio-cultural variables involved in climate-society interactions operate, analysis of such interactions benefits from a regional approach. Like all mountain regions, the western Alps possess a complex mosaic of topographically varied climates, or "topoclimates," that can generate an array of damaging weather-based disasters, which impact residents at different scales. Cultural practices employed by Alpine fa…
David Taylor, The Wild Black Region: Badenoch 1750–1800
No Stone Unturned: A History of Farming, Landscape and Environment in the Scottish Highlands and Islands
A one-stop text for the long-term history of the Highland countryside, one nuanced in ways that address topical themes like landscape and environmental change.Starting with prehistory, the book examines the way in which the farming community was organised: its institutional basis, its strategies of resource use and how these impacted on landscape, and the way in which it interacted with the challenges of its environment. It carries these themes f…
No Stone Unturned: A History of Farming, Landscape and Environment in the Scottish Highlands and Island
The Ben Lawers Historic Landscape Project: Simultaneous Multi-element Analysis of Former Settlement and Arable Soils by X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry
Geography's place in time
From the moment it began to engage with time in a considered way, human geography has employed a variety of analytical and conceptual approaches to it. Recent work especially has greatly extended the range of these different approaches by stressing the innate variability of time, leading some to talk of ‘multiple temporalities’ and to pronounce time as ‘uneven’ even within the same society. Fractured by such differences over how time may be used …
In What Way is the World Really Flat? Debates over Geographies of the Moment
This paper highlights the role played by the specious present or moment, what some call the present of the now, in geographical discussions of social change. Its most explicit treatment as a temporal framing for such change has been in performative approaches, with their stress on the capacity of immersive body practices to produce difference through the ongoing repetition of such practices, a difference that plays on what is habitually or instin…
Geostatistical and multi‐elemental analysis of soils to interpret land‐use history in the Hebrides, Scotland
In the absence of documentary evidence about settlement form and agricultural practice in northwest Scotland before the mid‐18th century, a geoarchaeological approach to reconstructing medieval land use and settlement form is presented here. This study applies multielemental analysis to soils previously collected from a settlement site in the Hebrides and highlights the importance of a detailed knowledge of the local soil environment and the cult…
Heather moorland in the Scottish Highlands: The history of a cultural landscape, 1600–1880
Coping with Risk: Subsistence Crises in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, 1600–1800
With their climatic variability and low crop yields, the Highlands and Islands formed a risk-laden environment for traditional farming communities. Yet whilst the major or exceptional famines between 1600 and 1800 are well-recorded, there has been less comment about the more frequent low-order crises that afflicted communities on a regular, even routine basis, leaving them without sufficient meal for a month or so before the new harvest was ready…
An Historical Geography of Europe
List of Contributors 1. The Human Geography of Europe: A Prehistoric Perspective 2. The Classical World 3. The Socio-Political Map of Europe, 400-1500 4. Rural Settlement in Europe, 400-1500 5. Towns and Trade, 400-1500 6. Geographical Knowledge and the Expansion of the European World After 1490 7. The Changing Political Map: Geography, Geopolitics, and the Idea of Europe since 1500 8. Changes in Population and Society 1500 to the Present 9. The …
An investigation of former land-use activity through the physical and chemical analysis of soils from the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides
In this study, the impact of human activity on the pedological environment of an agriculturally marginal site is investigated and the use of soils for analysing the site's land-use history is discussed. For townships such as Knockaird (Isle of Lewis), for which detailed layout/location prior to crofting is not recoverable through plans, such analyses can offer a prospective approach. The nature of traditional Hebridean farming provides an essenti…
An investigation of former land‐use activity through the physical and chemical analysis of soils from the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides
In this study, the impact of human activity on the pedological environment of an agriculturally marginal site is investigated and the use of soils for analysing the site's land-use history is discussed. For townships such as Knockaird (Isle of Lewis), for which detailed layout/location prior to crofting is not recoverable through plans, such analyses can offer a prospective approach. The nature of traditional Hebridean farming provides an essenti…
The Geoarchaeological Significance and Spatial Variability of a Range of Physical and Chemical Soil Properties from a Former Habitation Site, Isle of Skye
Human Geography at the End of Time? Some Thoughts on the Notion of Time-Space Compression
In this paper I look at the suggestion that time-space compression is changing our experience of time and space. In particular, the extent to which it is seen as raising the importance of a spatial perspective to our understanding of society is contrasted with how some writers have depicted it as rupturing our relationship with the past and its carryover of meaning. For some, this temporal disjuncture is seen as marking the end of History and as …
The evolution of Highland townships during the medieval and early modern periods
This paper considers how Highland townships changed over the medieval and early modern periods. It examines both structural and sectoral change. As regards the former, it draws the basic distinction between large and small townships but argues that ongoing processes of township disaggregation and aggregation blurred this distinction, creating a range of complex, hybrid forms. As regards the latter, it argues that we need to clarify the different …
Livestock Production in the Scottish Highlands Before and After the Clearances
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 t…
Allan I. Macinnes, Clanship, Commerce and the House of Stuart, 1603-1788
Multi-Element Analysis of Soils from Scottish Historical Sites. Interpreting Land-Use History Through the Physical and Geochemical Analysis of Soil
Society in Time and Space: A Geographical Perspective on Change
1. Human geography and societal change 2. Establishing a taxonomy of societal change 3. Varieties of change: world systems and empires 4. The experience of change: states and regions 5. Sources of inertia and the cultural construction of landscape 6. Organizational sources of inertia 7. The built environment as a source of inertia 8. Conceptualizing inertia: the first step towards a geography of social change 9. The geography of societal change: …
West Highland and Hebridean settlement pattern prior to crofting and the Clearances: A study in stability or change
Before their reorganisation into crofts or clearance for sheep, farming townships of the west Highlands and Islands were generally arranged around small irregular clusters of settlement, known as clachans or bailtean. For some, these clusters are an archaic settlement form with roots in late prehistory. This paper argues for a different interpretation of their character and chronology. Using a mix of documentary, cartographic, and field data, it …
West Highland and Hebridean landscapes: Have they a history without runrig
Strategies of Farming in the Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland Prior to Crofting and the Clearances
IV. The role of Europe in the early modern world-system: Parasitic or generative
Multi-Element Analysis of Soils from Scottish Historical Sites. Interpreting Land-Use History Through the Physical and Geochemical Analysis of Soil
The Geoarchaeological Significance and Spatial Variability of a Range of Physical and Chemical Soil Properties from a Former Habitation Site, Isle of Skye
Geography's place in time
From the moment it began to engage with time in a considered way, human geography has employed a variety of analytical and conceptual approaches to it. Recent work especially has greatly extended the range of these different approaches by stressing the innate variability of time, leading some to talk of ‘multiple temporalities’ and to pronounce time as ‘uneven’ even within the same society. Fractured by such differences over how time may be used …
Society in Time and Space: A Geographical Perspective on Change
1. Human geography and societal change 2. Establishing a taxonomy of societal change 3. Varieties of change: world systems and empires 4. The experience of change: states and regions 5. Sources of inertia and the cultural construction of landscape 6. Organizational sources of inertia 7. The built environment as a source of inertia 8. Conceptualizing inertia: the first step towards a geography of social change 9. The geography of societal change: …
Human Geography at the End of Time? Some Thoughts on the Notion of Time-Space Compression
In this paper I look at the suggestion that time-space compression is changing our experience of time and space. In particular, the extent to which it is seen as raising the importance of a spatial perspective to our understanding of society is contrasted with how some writers have depicted it as rupturing our relationship with the past and its carryover of meaning. For some, this temporal disjuncture is seen as marking the end of History and as …
In What Way is the World Really Flat? Debates over Geographies of the Moment
This paper highlights the role played by the specious present or moment, what some call the present of the now, in geographical discussions of social change. Its most explicit treatment as a temporal framing for such change has been in performative approaches, with their stress on the capacity of immersive body practices to produce difference through the ongoing repetition of such practices, a difference that plays on what is habitually or instin…
Geostatistical and multi‐elemental analysis of soils to interpret land‐use history in the Hebrides, Scotland
In the absence of documentary evidence about settlement form and agricultural practice in northwest Scotland before the mid‐18th century, a geoarchaeological approach to reconstructing medieval land use and settlement form is presented here. This study applies multielemental analysis to soils previously collected from a settlement site in the Hebrides and highlights the importance of a detailed knowledge of the local soil environment and the cult…
The European Past: Social Evolution and Spatial Order
In the wake of cook. Exploration, science and empire, 1780–1801
The Ben Lawers Historic Landscape Project: Simultaneous Multi-element Analysis of Former Settlement and Arable Soils by X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry
West Highland and Hebridean settlement pattern prior to crofting and the Clearances: A study in stability or change
Before their reorganisation into crofts or clearance for sheep, farming townships of the west Highlands and Islands were generally arranged around small irregular clusters of settlement, known as clachans or bailtean. For some, these clusters are an archaic settlement form with roots in late prehistory. This paper argues for a different interpretation of their character and chronology. Using a mix of documentary, cartographic, and field data, it …
The Nature and Development of Infield-Outfield in Scotland
Infield-outfield in Scotland has long been considered a primitive farming system. Despite the fact that there is no evidence for its existence before the fifteenth century, several writers have asserted their belief in its primitiveness and argued that its origins lie back in the Dark Ages or even beyond. This paper offers an alternative interpretation. Using evidence for Roxburghshire and Berwickshire, it is argued that infield and outfield were…
Heather moorland in the Scottish Highlands: The history of a cultural landscape, 1600–1880
The Origin of British Field Systems: An Interpretation
The Landholding Foundations of the Open-Field System
Journal Article THE LANDHOLDING FOUNDATIONS OF THE OPEN-FIELD SYSTEM Get access Robert A. Dodgshon Robert A. Dodgshon University College of WalesAberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 67, Issue 1, May 1975, Pages 3–29, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/67.1.3 Published: 01 May 1975
Coping with Risk: Subsistence Crises in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, 1600–1800
With their climatic variability and low crop yields, the Highlands and Islands formed a risk-laden environment for traditional farming communities. Yet whilst the major or exceptional famines between 1600 and 1800 are well-recorded, there has been less comment about the more frequent low-order crises that afflicted communities on a regular, even routine basis, leaving them without sufficient meal for a month or so before the new harvest was ready…
Changes in Scottish Township Organization During the Medieval and Early Modern Periods
The paper draws attention to the widespread arrangement of modern Scottish farms into small, related groups or pairs. These groups or pairs are usually distinguished by place-name prefixes like East, West, Mid, Nether, Lower, Upper and Meikle or suffixes like Mor(e) or Beg. Such seemingly split farms have always been regarded as the product of runrig divisions carried out during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. However, various sources sh…
Towards an Understanding and Definition of Runrig: The Evidence for Roxburghshire and Berwickshire
Relatively few attempts have been made to consider in depth the nature of runrig; the paper seeks to reduce this deficiency by discussing seventeenthand eighteenth-century evidence for tenant and proprietary runrig in Roxburghshire and Berwickshire. Four aspects are examined: their tenure, scale of operation, layout and the problem of re-allocation. Using this evidence, an attempt is made to develop a re-interpretation of runrig's essential meani…
Strategies of Farming in the Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland Prior to Crofting and the Clearances
West Highland and Hebridean landscapes: Have they a history without runrig
Productivity and Nutrient Use in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Highland Townships
(1988). Productivity and Nutrient Use in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Highland Townships. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography: Vol. 70, Landscape History: Papers from the 1987 meeting of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape, pp. 39-51
Land and Society in Early Scotland
Scottish population history from the seventeenth century to the 1930s
Infield-outfield and the territorial expansion of the English township
Farming Practice in the Western Highlands and Islands before Crofting: A Study in Cultural Inertia or Opportunity Costs
Farming in the western Highlands and Islands of Scotland was transformed over the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by the clearance of some townships to make way for commercial sheep production and the reorganisation of others into crofts. Commentaries on the region prior to these changes portray it as a cultural backwater, with communities employing a range of seemingly archaic and primitive practices. Early agricultural surveyors …
The Nature and Development of Infield-Outfield in Scotland
Infield-outfield in Scotland has long been considered a primitive farming system. Despite the fact that there is no evidence for its existence before the fifteenth century, several writers have asserted their belief in its primitiveness and argued that its origins lie back in the Dark Ages or even beyond. This paper offers an alternative interpretation. Using evidence for Roxburghshire and Berwickshire, it is argued that infield and outfield were…
Infield-outfield and the territorial expansion of the English township
Towards an Understanding and Definition of Runrig: The Evidence for Roxburghshire and Berwickshire
Relatively few attempts have been made to consider in depth the nature of runrig; the paper seeks to reduce this deficiency by discussing seventeenthand eighteenth-century evidence for tenant and proprietary runrig in Roxburghshire and Berwickshire. Four aspects are examined: their tenure, scale of operation, layout and the problem of re-allocation. Using this evidence, an attempt is made to develop a re-interpretation of runrig's essential meani…
The Landholding Foundations of the Open-Field System
Journal Article THE LANDHOLDING FOUNDATIONS OF THE OPEN-FIELD SYSTEM Get access Robert A. Dodgshon Robert A. Dodgshon University College of WalesAberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 67, Issue 1, May 1975, Pages 3–29, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/67.1.3 Published: 01 May 1975
The Economics of Sheep Farming in the Southern Uplands during the Age of Improvement, 1750-1833
Changes in Scottish Township Organization During the Medieval and Early Modern Periods
The paper draws attention to the widespread arrangement of modern Scottish farms into small, related groups or pairs. These groups or pairs are usually distinguished by place-name prefixes like East, West, Mid, Nether, Lower, Upper and Meikle or suffixes like Mor(e) or Beg. Such seemingly split farms have always been regarded as the product of runrig divisions carried out during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. However, various sources sh…
The making of the Scottish landscape
Exchange systems in prehistory
Observations on the open fields: A reply
The End of the Old Order in Rural Europe . Jerome Blum
Scottish population history from the seventeenth century to the 1930s
Land and Society in Early Scotland
The Origin of British Field Systems: An Interpretation
Land and Society in Early Scotland
Dark Age Economics: The origins of towns and trade A.D. 600–1000
National separatism
The evolution of Upper Norrland's ports and loading places 1750–1976
The European miracle. Environment, economies and geopolitics in the history of Europe and Asia
(1983). The European miracle. Environment, economies and geopolitics in the history of Europe and Asia. History of European Ideas: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 344-346
The Rural World, 1780-1850: Social Change in the English Countryside . Pamela Horn The Victorian Countryside . G. E. Mingay
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access ROBERT A. DODGSHON ROBERT A. DODGSHON University College of WalesAberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIX, Issue CCCXCIII, October 1984, Pages 875–876, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIX.CCCXCIII.875 Published: 01 October 1984
Period and place. Research methods in historical geography
(1984). Period and place. Research methods in historical geography. History of European Ideas: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 106-108
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access ROBERT A. DODGSHON ROBERT A. DODGSHON University College of WalesAberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume C, Issue CCCXCIV, January 1985, Pages 152–153, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/C.CCCXCIV.152 Published: 01 January 1985
The historical geography of Scotland since 1707
The historical geography of Scotland since 1707." History of European Ideas, 6(3), pp. 369–370
In the wake of cook. Exploration, science and empire, 1780–1801
The European Past
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