Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland.
Showcases the latest research on Scotland's rural economy and society.
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| Language: | English |
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Boydell & Brewer, Inc.,
2024.
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| Series: | Boydell studies in rural history.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Currency and Measures
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Exploring Scotland's Agricultural History
- 1 Imagining Scottish Agriculture before the Improvers
- 2 The Use of Dykes in Scottish Farming 1500-1700
- 3 The Famine of 1622-23 in Scotland
- 4 Weather and Farming through the Eyes of a Sixteenth-Century Highland Peasant
- 5 Stock, Fermes, Mails and Duties in a Midlothian Barony 1587-89
- 6 The Roots of Improvement: Early Seventeenth-Century Agriculture on the Mains of Dundas, Linlithgowshire
- 7 'God Knowis my Sleipis ar Short and Unsound': Andro Smyth's Collection of Rent, Tax, Teind and Tolls in Shetland, c.1640
- 8 Farming in the Stirling Area 1560-1750
- 9 What Were the Fiars Prices Used For?
- 10 Agriculture and Banking in Eighteenth-Century Scotland 1695-1750
- 11 Capitalism's Cradle? Ideas, Policies and the Rise of the Scottish Economy in the Mercantilist Age 1600-1800
- Conclusion: A Historiographical and Bibliographical Overview
- Index
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