This is a page-turning history, lucidly written, and it is enhanced by a selection of five famous Border ballads. One of the best reads of the year, without doubt' - Hamish Coghill, Scottish Life'This is a history as exciting and dramatic as the Border ballads themselves' - Cumb…
"From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo-Scottish borderlands witnessed one of the most intense periods of warfare and disorder ever seen in modern Europe. As a consequence of near-constant conflict between England and Scotland, Borderers suffere…
From the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, outlaws reigned supreme on the contentious frontier between England and Scotland. Feud and terror, raid and reprisal, were the ordinary stuff of life?and a way of survival. Power was held by the notorious border reivers (the steel …
Rogues, criminals, family honor. From the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, outlaws reigned supreme on the contentious frontier between England and Scotland. Feud and terror, raid and reprisal were the ordinary stuff of life--and a way of survival. Power was held by the not…
Tells the story of the border reivers: clan-loyal raiders, freebooters, plunderers, and rustlers who worked the border between England and Scotland from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries.
From the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, outlaws reigned supreme on the contentious frontier between England and Scotland. Feud and terror, raid and reprisal, were the ordinary stuff of life?and a way of survival. Power was held by the notorious border reivers (the steel …
Based on 16 years of fieldwork among the pastoral Turkana people, McCabe examines how individuals use the land and make decisions about mobility, livestock and the use of natural resources in an environment characterized by aridity, unpredictability, insecurity and violence.
Based on 16 years of fieldwork among the pastoral Turkana people, McCabe examines how individuals use the land and make decisions about mobility, livestock and the use of natural resources in an environment characterized by aridity, unpredictability, insecurity and violence.