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Solway Country - Land, Life and Livelihood in the Western Border Region of England and Scotland (Paperback, Unabridged edition)
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Solway Country - Land, Life and Livelihood in the Western Border Region of England and Scotland (Paperback, Unabridged edition)
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The Solway Country - the lands surrounding the inner Solway Firth -
constitutes one of the many small regional worlds of the British
Isles that are remarkable for the ways in which their landscapes
evoke a powerful sense of territorial identity rooted not only in
their physical appeal, but also in the richness and distinctiveness
of their human history and geography. The Solway Country is an
archetypical but hitherto little known exemplar of places like
these.This book captures the spirit and substance of the Solway
Country's allure by means of a series of layered narratives dealing
with its natural milieu, its past social and political turmoil, its
changing forms of rural and agrarian life, and its responses to the
industrial and urban forces that were unleashed in Britain after
the eighteenth century. The Solway Country has the added charm of
being partly in England and partly in Scotland, so that its
personality partakes of elements of both. At the same time, the
region exhibits a composite geographic unity derived from the
central physical feature of the Solway Firth itself and from the
many common aspects of local life and livelihood that have left
deep imprints on the landscape. This unity is expressed
symbolically in the peculiar hybrid culture of ballads and songs
that emerged alongside the theft, murder, and mayhem that raged in
the Anglo-Scottish marchlands in the days of the border reivers.
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