Robert Allen Houston / Ian D. Whyte (eds.)

Scottish Society, 1500 1800

Ed. by Robert A. Houston and Ian D. Whyte

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Scottish social history has made considerable advances in recent years as scholars have begun to ask new and exciting questions about the lives of the ordinary people of Scotland in the centuries before the Industrial Revolution. This volume surveys these developments and presents the results of new, previously unpublished research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9780521891677
• ISBN-10: 0521891671
• Artikelnr.: 14718764

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables; List of abbreviations; Introduction: Scottish society in perspective R. A. Houston and I. D. Whyte; 1. Population mobility in early modern Scotland I. D. Whyte; 2. Scottish food and Scottish history, 1500-1800 A. Gibson and T. C. Smout; 3. Continuity and change in urban society, 1500-1700 M. Lynch; 4. Women in the economy and society of Scotland, 1500-1800 R. A. Houston; 5. Social responses to agrarian 'improvement': the Highland and Lowland clearances in Scotland T. M. Devine; 6.'Pretense of blude' and 'place of their dwelling': the nature of highland clans, 1500-1745 R. A. Dodgshon; 7. North and south: the development of the gulf in Poor Law practice Rosalind Mitchison; 8. Scotland and Ireland, 1600-1800: their role in the evolution of British society L. M. Cullen; 9. Kindred adjoining kingdoms: an English perspective on the social and economic history of early modern Scotland K. E. Wrightson; Bibliography of printed sources and secondary works; Index.