Transhumance and the Making of Ireland’s Uplands, 1550-1900 (Garden and Landscape History, 7)

Eugene Costello

Published by Boydell Press, 2020

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new Hardcover. This book is the first major interdisciplinary approach to the diversity and decline of transhumance in a northern European context. Focusing on Ireland from c.1550 to 1900 it shows that uplands were valuable resources which allowed tenant households to maintain larger herds of livestock and adapt to global economic trends. And it places the practice in a social context, demonstrating that transhumance required highly organized systems of common grazing and that the care of dairy cows amounted to a rite of passage for unmarried young women in many rural communities.

ISBN 10: 1783275316ISBN 13: 9781783275311

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Eugene Costello

Published by Boydell Press, 2020

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new Hardcover. This book is the first major interdisciplinary approach to the diversity and decline of transhumance in a northern European context. Focusing on Ireland from c.1550 to 1900 it shows that uplands were valuable resources which allowed tenant households to maintain larger herds of livestock and adapt to global economic trends. And it places the practice in a social context, demonstrating that transhumance required highly organized systems of common grazing and that the care of dairy cows amounted to a rite of passage for unmarried young women in many rural communities.

ISBN 10: 1783275316ISBN 13: 9781783275311

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