| Description |
xii, 298 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Population mobility in early modern Scotland / I.D. Whyte -- Scottish food and Scottish history, 1500-1800 / A. Gibson and T.C. Smout -- Continuity and change in urban society, 1500-1700 / M. Lynch -- Women in the economy and society of Scotland, 1500-1800 / R.A. Houston -- Social responses to agrarian "improvement" / T.M. Devine -- "Pretense of blude" and "place of thair dwelling" / R.A. Dodgshon -- North and south / R. Mitchison -- Scotland and Ireland, 1600-1800 / L.M. Cullen -- Kindred adjoining kingdoms / K.E. Wrightson |
| Summary |
In recent years 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. The essays in this volume, written by some of the foremost figures in Scottish social history, cover many significant themes in pre-industrial Scottish society: poverty, diet, social organisation and change, urban development, population mobility and the status of women. The editors have provided an introductory overview of Scottish society analysing such topics as population, social structure, law and order, religion and popular culture. The approach throughout is a comparative one aimed at highlighting both the similarities and the distinctive features of Scottish society when compared with those of the rest of the British Isles and continental Europe. Two concluding chapters provide insights from specialists on Irish and English society into how Scotland fits into the context of 'British' social development |
| Analysis |
Scotland Social conditions, 1500-1800 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 261-287 |
| SUBJECT |
Scotland -- History -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118843
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Scotland -- History -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118847
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Scotland -- History -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118853
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Scotland -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96009687
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Scotland -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118869
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| Author |
Houston, R. A. (Robert Allan), 1954-
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Whyte, Ian (Ian D.)
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| LC no. |
88005004 |
| ISBN |
0521325226 |
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