The New Coastal History

Foreword; John M. MacKenzie.- Introducing the New Coastal History: Cultural and Environmental Perspectives from Scotland and Beyond; David Worthington.- The Urban Amphibious; Isaac Land .- The Firth of Forth: What Drives Change; T.C. Smout.- SECTION TWO - COASTS BEYOND SCOTLAND: TRANSCENDING LOCAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES.- Merchant Seamen, Sailortowns, and the Philanthropic Encounter in New York, 1843-1945; Johnathan Thayer.- The Influence of Post-Glacial Rebound on the Island Community of Hailuoto in the Northern Baltic Sea; Outi Korhonen.- Elvers and Salmon: Moral Ecologies and Conflict on the Nineteenth-Century Severn; Carl Griffin and Iain Robertson.- SECTION THREE - COASTSCAPES OF THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS.- Three Scottish Coastal Names: Earra-Ghaidheal, Satiriseid, and Skotlandsfirdir; Andrew Jennings.- The Making of the Minch: French Pirates, British Herring, and Vernacular Knowledges at an Eighteenth-Century Maritime Crossroads; Domhnall Uilleam Stiubhart.- Charity and Philanthropy in a Coastal World: Scottish Fishing Communities and the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society, 1839-48; Cathryn Pearce.- The Importance of Coastal Geography: The Experience and Commemoration of the Two World Wars in Shetland; Linda Riddell.- The Creation of Airline Services in the Northern and Western Isles of Scotland: Impact and Legacy; Andrew Rae.- Thurso and the Pentland Firth as a Site of Sport; Matthew McDowell.- SECTION FOUR - FIRTHS AND OTHER SCOTTISH COASTS.- Scotland's Forgotten Frontier Littoral: The Solway Firth; Ted Cowan.- Witch Belief in Scottish Coastal Communities; Lizanne Henderson.- A Rock with a View: Re-examining a 1680s View of the Bass Island; Amy Todman.- `...Of Which a Contraband Trade Makes the Basis of their Profit': Tea Smuggling in the North Sea c.1750 - 1780; Derek Janes.- `We Cannot See Them...They Have Gone Out of Our Reach': Narratives of Change in the Fisheries of Scotland's Great Firths, c.1770-1890; Peter Jones.