Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland

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Edited by Harriet Cornell, University of Edinburgh, Julian Goodare, University of Edinburgh, Alan R. MacDonald, University of Dundee

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: May 2024
Print publication year:: 2024
Online ISBN:: 9781805432753
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781805432753

Subjects:: Economics, History, Finance and Accountancy, Regional History after 1500
Series:: Boydell Studies in Rural History

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Illustrations
pp ix-x

Contributors
pp xi-xii

Acknowledgements
pp xiii-xiii

Note on Currency and Measures
pp xiv-xiv

Abbreviations
pp xv-xv

Map of Scotland
pp xvi-xvi

Introduction: Exploring Scotland’s Agricultural History
pp 1-23

1 - Imagining Scottish Agriculture before the Improvers
pp 24-49

2 - The Use of Dykes in Scottish Farming 1500–1700
pp 50-69

3 - The Famine of 1622–23 in Scotland
pp 70-92

4 - Weather and Farming through the Eyes of a Sixteenth-Century Highland Peasant
pp 93-129

5 - Stock, Fermes, Mails and Duties in a Midlothian Barony 1587–89
pp 130-146

6 - The Roots of Improvement: Early Seventeenth-Century Agriculture on the Mains of Dundas, Linlithgowshire
pp 147-163

7 - ‘God Knowis my Sleipis ar Short and Unsound’: Andro Smyth’s Collection of Rent, Tax, Teind and Tolls in Shetland c.1640
pp 164-175

8 - Farming in the Stirling Area 1560–1750
pp 176-198

9 - What Were the Fiars Prices Used For?
pp 199-215

10 - Agriculture and Banking in Eighteenth-Century Scotland 1695–1750
pp 216-234

11 - Capitalism’s Cradle? Ideas, Policies and the Rise of the Scottish Economy in the Mercantilist Age 1600–1800
pp 235-262

Conclusion: A Historiographical and Bibliographical Overview
pp 263-274

Index
pp 275-290

Boydell Studies in Rural History
pp 291-291

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