Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Cornell, Harriet; Macdonald, Alan R.; Goodare, Julian

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805432760
• Artikelnr.: 70482691

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Exploring Scotland's Agricultural History
Harriet Cornell, Julian Goodare and Alan R. MacDonald 1. Imagining Scottish Agriculture Before the Improvers
Julian Goodare 2. The Use of Dykes in Scottish Farming 1500
1700
Briony Kincaid 3. The Famine of 1622
23 in Scotland
Kevin Hall 4. Weather and Farming through the Eyes of a Sixteenth
Century Highland Peasant
Julian Goodare 5. Stock, Fermes, Mails and Duties in a Midlothian Barony 1587
89
Norah Carlin 6. The Roots of Improvement: Early Seventeenth
Century Agriculture on the Mains of Dundas, Linlithgowshire
Alan R. MacDonald 7. 'God Knowis my Sleipisar Short and Unsound': Andro Smyth's Collection of Rent, Tax, Teind and Tolls in Shetland c.1640
Brian Smith 8. Farming in the Stirling Area 1560
1750
John G. Harrison 9. What Were the Fiars Prices Used For?
T. C. Smout 10. Agriculture and Banking in Eighteenth
Century Scotland 1695
1750
Gains Murdoch 11. Capitalism's Cradle? Ideas, Policies, and the Rise of the Scottish Economy in the Mercantilist Age 1600
1800
Philipp Robinson Rössner Conclusion: An Historiographical and Bibliographical Overview
R. A. Houston Index