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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.
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.
Price: $95.00
Pages: 308
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: Boydell Press
Series: Boydell Studies in Rural History
Publication Date:
23 April 2024
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9781837650484
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, General and world history, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History
This volume illustrates how broad-ranging this research tradition has become in the last thirty
years, extending well beyond the study of commercialization and the reorganization of fertile land, to encompass histories of identity, landscape, popular experience, and state capacity. Despite this breadth of ambition, the volume retains and sustains a coherent, though varied, account of a set of communities that underwent significant changes from the late medieval period onward, but for which the rate and scale of transformation accelerated after 1750.
years, extending well beyond the study of commercialization and the reorganization of fertile land, to encompass histories of identity, landscape, popular experience, and state capacity. Despite this breadth of ambition, the volume retains and sustains a coherent, though varied, account of a set of communities that underwent significant changes from the late medieval period onward, but for which the rate and scale of transformation accelerated after 1750.
Introduction: Exploring Scotland's Agricultural History - Harriet Cornell, Julian Goodare and Alan R. MacDonald
1. Imagining Scottish Agriculture Before the Improvers - Julian Goodare
2. The Use of Dykes in Scottish Farming 1500-1700 - Briony Kincaid
3. The Famine of 1622-23 in Scotland - Kevin Hall
4. Weather and Farming through the Eyes of a Sixteenth-Century Highland Peasant - Julian Goodare
5. Stock, Fermes, Mails and Duties in a Midlothian Barony 1587-89 - Norah Carlin
6. The Roots of Improvement: Early Seventeenth-Century Agriculture on the Mains of Dundas, Linlithgowshire - Alan R. MacDonald
7. 'God Knowis my Sleipisar Short and Unsound': Andro Smyth's Collection of Rent, Tax, Teind and Tolls in Shetland c.1640 - Brian Smith
8. Farming in the Stirling Area 1560-1750 - John G. Harrison
9. What Were the Fiars Prices Used For? - T. C. Smout
10. Agriculture and Banking in Eighteenth-Century Scotland 1695-1750 - Gains Murdoch
11. Capitalism's Cradle? Ideas, Policies, and the Rise of the Scottish Economy in the Mercantilist Age 1600-1800 - Philipp Robinson Rössner
Conclusion: An Historiographical and Bibliographical Overview - R. A. Houston
Index
1. Imagining Scottish Agriculture Before the Improvers - Julian Goodare
2. The Use of Dykes in Scottish Farming 1500-1700 - Briony Kincaid
3. The Famine of 1622-23 in Scotland - Kevin Hall
4. Weather and Farming through the Eyes of a Sixteenth-Century Highland Peasant - Julian Goodare
5. Stock, Fermes, Mails and Duties in a Midlothian Barony 1587-89 - Norah Carlin
6. The Roots of Improvement: Early Seventeenth-Century Agriculture on the Mains of Dundas, Linlithgowshire - Alan R. MacDonald
7. 'God Knowis my Sleipisar Short and Unsound': Andro Smyth's Collection of Rent, Tax, Teind and Tolls in Shetland c.1640 - Brian Smith
8. Farming in the Stirling Area 1560-1750 - John G. Harrison
9. What Were the Fiars Prices Used For? - T. C. Smout
10. Agriculture and Banking in Eighteenth-Century Scotland 1695-1750 - Gains Murdoch
11. Capitalism's Cradle? Ideas, Policies, and the Rise of the Scottish Economy in the Mercantilist Age 1600-1800 - Philipp Robinson Rössner
Conclusion: An Historiographical and Bibliographical Overview - R. A. Houston
Index