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Umfang: 1 online resource (xv, 289 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 9781805432753 (ebook)

Serie: Boydell studies in rural history

Inhalt: 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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Weitere Ausg.: Print version: ISBN 9781837650484

Sprache: Englisch

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Umfang: 1 online resource (308 p.) : , 4 maps and 10 b/w illus.

ISBN: 1-80543-275-3

Serie: Boydell Studies in Rural History ; 4

Inhalt: 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.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , Illustrations -- , Contributors -- , Acknowledgements -- , Note on Currency and Measures -- , Abbreviations -- , Map of Scotland -- , 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 , In English.

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 1-83765-048-9

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9781805432753