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These fourteen essays range over a wide array of topics, illuminating the course of Shetland history over the five hundred years which followed Christian I of Denmark's pawning of the islands to Scotland in 1469. Here we have Shetland at peace and at war; Shetland in economic health and in economic decline; the Shetland of the invader, the Shetland of the tourist; Shetland as seen by Shetlanders, reviewing their own past, distant or recent; Shetland as the battleground of warring cultures and traditions; Shetland as the centre of great trading and fishing empires, and as an essential frontier in time of war (as in 1939-45) - and Shetland thereafter forgotten by Governments, left to secure its own identity and salvation, to seek out its own economic and social survival; we have the Shetlander at home and the Shetlander roaming the world as sailor and emigrant. Shetland and the Outside World brings together all these facets, often in a novel way.

Author

Shetland and the Outside World 1469-1969 (1969)

Publisher

Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York: Published for the University of Aberdeen by Oxford University Press

Published

1983

Language

EN

ISBN

9780197141076

Subjects

History, Humanities