Agriculture and Society in Seventeenth-century Scotland

Agriculture and Society in Seventeenth-century Scotland
Author: Ian D. Whyte
Publisher: John Donald
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1979
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

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The land and the people; The Estate and Rural community; The farm; Parliamentary legislation and agricultural change; The country house and enclousure; The tenant and his holding; Transport, communications and marketing; Developments in Arabia farming; The grain trade and droving trade; Towards union.

Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland

Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland
Author: Harriet Cornell
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2024-04-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1837650489

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Showcases the latest research on Scotland's rural economy and society. Early modern Scotland was predominantly rural. Agriculture was the main occupation of most people at the time, so what happened in the countryside was crucial: economically, socially and culturally. The essays collected here focus on the years between around 1500 and 1750. This period, although before the main era of agricultural "improvement" in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, was nevertheless far from static in terms of agrarian development. Specific topics addressed include everyday farming practices; investment; landlords, tenants and estate management; and the cultural context within which agriculture was "imagined". The disastrous famine of 1622-23 is analysed in detail. The volume is completed by a comprehensive survey of recent historiography, setting agricultural history in its broader context.

Scottish Society, 1500-1800

Scottish Society, 1500-1800
Author: Robert Allen Houston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2005-04-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521891677

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The volume covers many of the most significant themes in pre-industrial Scottish society.

Scotland’s Society and Economy in Transition, c.1500–c.1760

Scotland’s Society and Economy in Transition, c.1500–c.1760
Author: Ian Whyte
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1997-01-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1349253073

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During the last twenty years there has been an explosion of new research into the development of Scotland from a small, backward country on the periphery of Europe to one poised to undergo industrialisation in step with England. This book provides an overview of key themes related to social change and economic development in early Modern Scotland aimed at demonstrating how this transformation occurred.

Scotland before the Industrial Revolution

Scotland before the Industrial Revolution
Author: Ian D. Whyte
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2014-05-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317900022

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This splendid portrait of medieval and early modern Scotland through to the Union and its aftermath has no current rival in chronological range, thematic scope and richness of detail. Ian Whyte pays due attention to the wide regional variations within Scotland itself and to the distinctive elements of her economy and society; but he also highlights the many parallels between the Scottish experience and that of her neighbours, especially England. The result sets the development of Scotland within its British context and beyond, in a book that will interest and delight far more than Scottish specialists alone.

Scottish Society, 1707-1830

Scottish Society, 1707-1830
Author: Christopher A. Whatley
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780719045417

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This book challenges conventional wisdom and provides new insights into Scottish social and economic history. Christopher A. Whatley argues that the Union of 1707 was vital for Scottish success, but in ways which have hitherto been overlooked. He proposes that the central place of Jacobitism in the historiography of the period should be revised. Comprehensive in its coverage, the book is based not only on an exhaustive reading of secondary material but also incorporates a wealth of new evidence from previously little-used or unused primary sources.

Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland

Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland
Author: Highland and Agricultural Society of Sco
Publisher: Arkose Press
Total Pages: 850
Release: 2015-10-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781343903210

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The Transformation of Rural Scotland

The Transformation of Rural Scotland
Author: Thomas Martin Devine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

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"In the eighteenth century the old peasant society of lowland Scotland disappeared to be replaced by a new order of capitalist farmers and landless labourers. It was one of the most fundamental changes in modern Scottish history, but has never before been studied in detail." "In this groundbreaking book, T. M. Devine uses original and extensive archive material from four representative counties to explore this social revolution - a revolution unparalleled in Western Europe for its speed and scale. He compares developments in the Highlands of Scotland and in agrarian England, and covers a wide range of issues, including: the seventeenth-century rural social structure; the eighteenth-century agrarian economy; landlordism and improvement; the evolution of the tenant farming class; and the dispossession of the cottar class. It is an important and controversial book on a subject which has received inadequate study in the past."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved