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A collection of essays which explore the history of Scottish society. Topics discussed include merchants and trade, Scottish economic development, the highlands and rural lowlands.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Merchants, Union and Trade: Scottish Burghs and the Cromwellian Union, 1652-1660; The Merchant class of the larger Scottish Towns in the Seventeenth and early Eighteenth centuries; The Union of 1707 and Scottish Development; Colonial Commerce and the Scottish Economy 1730-1815; A Glasgow Merchant during the American War of Independence; An Eighteenth Century Business Elite. Part 2 Scottish Economic Development: Scotland in the Reign on James VI; The English Connection and Irish Scottish Development in the Eighteenth Century; The Making of Urban and Industrial Society. Part III The Highlands: Social Responses to Agrarian Improvement: the Highland Clearances in Scotland; Temporary Migration and the Scottish Highlands in the Nineteenth Century; The Landed Class and the Great Highland Famine. Part IV The Rural Lowlands: Glasgow Colonial Merchants; Social Stability and Agrarian Change in the Eastern Lowlands of Scotland; Farm Service in the Scottish Agricultural Revolution; Women Workers 1850-1914.

About the Author :
Sir Tom Devine is the Sir William Fraser Professor Emeritus of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author or editor of more that forty books on Scottish historical studies and related fields. The only historian to be knighted by HM The Queen ‘for services to the study of Scottish history’, he has been described by The Times newspaper as ‘as close to a national bard as the nation has’.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781898410386
  • Publisher: Birlinn General
  • Publisher Imprint: Tuckwell Press Ltd
  • Height: 240 mm
  • No of Pages: 271
  • Weight: 365 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1898410380
  • Publisher Date: 02 Dec 1998
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Themes in the History of Scottish Society


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