Format:
Book
Author:
Robb, Graham, 1958- author.
Title:
The debatable land : the lost world between Scotland and England / Graham Robb.
Edition:
First American edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.
©2018
Description:
x, 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Summary:
Explores the history of the Debatable Land, the former buffer between Scotland and England and once upon a time the bloodiest region in the country.
Subjects:
Boundaries -- History.
Scottish Borders (England and Scotland) -- History.
Scottish Borders (England and Scotland) -- History, Military.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-316) and indexes.
Contents:
Hidden places -- Outpost -- Panic button -- The true and ancient border -- "The sewer of abandoned men" -- Mouldywarp -- Beachcombing -- Blind roads -- Harrowed -- "Loveable custumis" -- Accelerated transhumance -- Skurrlywarble -- Exploratores -- Windy edge -- "In tymes bigane" -- "Stob and staik" -- "Rube, burne, spoyll, slaye, murder annd destrewe" -- The final partition -- Hector of ye Harlawe -- Scrope -- Tarras Moss -- "A factious and naughty people" -- Silence -- Graticules -- The Kingdom of Selgovia -- "Arthur" -- The great Caledonian invasion -- Polling stations -- No man's land -- The river.
ISBN:
0393285324 (hardcover)
9780393285321 (hardcover)
Other Number:
1005124666
System Availability:
9
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3611020
Call Number:
941.3/7
Course Reserves:
0
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9