Agriculture Economy And Society In Early Modern Scotland
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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.
Author | : Ian D. Whyte |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2014-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317900022 |
Download Scotland before the Industrial Revolution Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
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.
Author | : Tom M. Devine |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2019-07-29 |
Genre | : Scotland |
ISBN | : 0748653341 |
Download Transformation of Scotland Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This is the first comprehensive history of the Scottish economy over the last three centuries to appear in a generation. Written by leading scholars in the field, it presents 'state of the art' research in an accessible style to all those interested in understanding the historical context of modern Scotland. Fresh interpretations are revealed on such key and controversial issues as the impact of the Union of 1707, the Clearances, the rise and fall of Scottish heavy industry and the recent transformation of the modern economy. The distinctive features of the Scottish economic system are stressed but these are also analysed within a British and international context. The focus of the volume is both broad and detailed with full treatment of agriculture, finance, industry and the service sector as well as the impact of momentous economic changes on the lives of the people and the massive new role in the twentieth century of the state in economic affairs. At a time of intense debate on the present and future condition of Scotland under a devolved parliament and executive, this book provides the essential background and the long-run perspectives on the challenges and opportunities facing the nation.
Author | : Mark Overton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1996-04-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521568593 |
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This book is the first available survey of English agriculture between 1500 and 1850. It combines new evidence with recent findings from the specialist literature, to argue that the agricultural revolution took place in the century after 1750. Taking a broad view of agrarian change, the author begins with a description of sixteenth-century farming and an analysis of its regional structure. He then argues that the agricultural revolution consisted of two related transformations. The first was a transformation in output and productivity brought about by a complex set of changes in farming practice. The second was a transformation of the agrarian economy and society, including a series of related developments in marketing, landholding, field systems, property rights, enclosure and social relations. Written specifically for students, this book will be invaluable to anyone studying English economic and social history, or the history of agriculture.
Author | : Christopher A. Whatley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1997-01-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521576437 |
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A succinct and accessible account of the nature and impact of industrialisation in Scotland.
Author | : Allan Kennedy |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2024-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1837650233 |
Download Life at the Margins in Early Modern Scotland Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
An exploration of the diverse lived experiences of marginality in Scottish society from the sixteen to the eighteenth century. Throughout the early modern period, Scottish society was constructed around an expectation of social conformity: people were required to operate within a relatively narrow range of acceptable identities and behaviours. Those who did not conform to this idealised standard, or who were in some fundamental way different from the prescribed norm, were met with suspicion. Such individuals often attracted both criticism and discrimination, forcing them to live confirmed to the social margins. Focusing on a range of marginalised groups, including the poor, migrants, ethnic minorities, indentured workers and women, the contributors to this book explore what it was like to live at the boundaries of social acceptability, what mechanisms were involved in policing the divide between "mainstream" and "marginal", and what opportunities existed for personal or collective fulfilment. The result is a fresh perspective on early modern Scotland, one that not only recovers the stories of people long excluded from historical discussion, but also offers a deeper understanding of the ordering assumptions of society more generally. Specific topics addressed range from the marginalisation of people with disabilities in the domestic sphere to female sex workers, and the place of executioners in society.
Author | : Bruce Lenman |
Publisher | : B. T. Batsford Limited |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Download An Economic History of Modern Scotland, 1660-1976 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Thomas Martin Devine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : 9780859765077 |
Download The Transformation of Rural Scotland Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In the later decades of the 17th century, Scotland was a relatively poor and undeveloped country. Around 100 years later it was in the throes of an extraordicnary transformation, which laid the basis for the nation's world economic pre-eminence in the Victorian era. Two aspects of this great leap forward, the Industrial Revolution and the Highland Clearances have been much studied. This is a study of a fundamental development, of the transition from peasant to capitalist agriculture. It covers the social change in Scotland through a wide range of issues including agrarian economy, evolution of tenant farming and landlordism.
Author | : Julian Goodare |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1999-09-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191542881 |
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This is the first full scholarly study of state formation and the exercise of state power in Scotland. It sets the Scottish state in a British and European context, revealing that Scotland — like larger and better-known states — developed a more integrated governmental system in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This study provides an invaluable new contribution to the history of Scotland. Julian Goodare shows how the magnates ceased to exercise autonomous local power, and instead managed the new administrative structure through client networks. The state no longer drew its main revenues from land, but developed new taxes; its fighting forces were modernized and detached from landed power. With the Reformation, powerful church institutions were created, and were gradually integrated into the state. The states territorial integrity increased, giving it a closer and more troubled relationship with the Highlands. Scotland remained a sovereign state even after the union of crowns in 1603, but it was finally absorbed by England in 1707, and Dr Goodare examines the long-term context of this development.