Table of contents

1. Foreword
2. Acknowledgements
3. Contents
4. Editor and Contributors
5. List of Figures
6. List of Tables
7. Part I Concepts in Coastal History From Scotland and Beyond
8. Introducing the New Coastal History: Cultural and Environmental Perspectives from Scotland and Beyond
9. The Urban Amphibious
10. The Firth of Forth: What Drives Change
11. Part II Coasts Beyond Scotland: Transcending Local and Global Perspectives
12. Merchant Seamen, Sailortowns, and the Philanthropic Encounter in New York, 1843–1945
13. The Influence of Post-glacial Rebound on the Island Community of Hailuoto on the Northern Baltic Sea
14. Elvers and Salmon: Moral Ecologies and Conflict on the Nineteenth-Century Severn
15. Part III Coastscapes of The Scottish Highlands and Islands
16. Three Scottish Coastal Names of Note: Earra-Ghàidheal, Satíriseið, and Skotlandsfirðir
17. The Making of the Minch: French Pirates, British Herring, and Vernacular Knowledges at an Eighteenth-Century Maritime Crossroads
18. Charity and Philanthropy in a Coastal World: Scottish Fishing Communities and the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners’ Royal Benevolent Society, 1839–1848
19. The Importance of Geography: The Experience and Commemoration of the Two World Wars in Shetland
20. The Creation of Airline Services in the Northern and Western Isles of Scotland: Impact and Legacy
21. Thurso and the Pentland Firth as a Site of Sport
22. Part IV Firths and Other Scottish Coasts
23. Scotland’s Forgotten Frontier Littoral: The Solway Firth
24. Witch Belief in Scottish Coastal Communities
25. A Rock with a View: Re-examining a 1680s View of the Bass Island
26. ‘…Of Which a Contraband Trade Makes the Basis of their Profit’: Tea Smuggling in the North Sea c.1750–1780
27. ‘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
28. Index