A. J. S. Gibson

Prices, Food and Wages in Scotland, 1550 1780

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A major work in early modern and pre-industrial economic and social history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 896g
• ISBN-13: 9780521346566
• ISBN-10: 0521346568
• Artikelnr.: 21556837

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
A note on Scottish and English money
Map of Scottish counties and principal burghs
1. Introduction
2. The system of burgh price regulation
3. The system of county fiars
4. Press reports of monthly market prices
5. Trends and fluctuations in grain price movements
6. The price of animals and animal products
7. Food
8. Wages in money and kind
9. Real wages
Appendix I: Scottish weights and measures, 1580-1780
Appendix II: accessing the data
Bibliography
Person index
Place index
Subject index.