Book Description
The volume covers many of the most significant themes in pre-industrial Scottish society.
Author : Robert Allen Houston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 2005-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521891677
The volume covers many of the most significant themes in pre-industrial Scottish society.
Author : Ian D. Whyte
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Human geography
ISBN : 9780415029926
Author : T. M. Devine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 21,59 MB
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0199563691
A landmark study which reconsiders in fresh and illuminating ways the classic themes of the nation's history since the sixteenth century, as well as a number of new topics which are only now receiving detailed attention. Places the Scottish experience firmly in an international historical experience.
Author : R. A. Houston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 2002-06-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780521890885
This book tests the belief that Scotland had the most literate population in the early modern world.
Author : Ian Whyte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 19,40 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1000387887
Originally published in 1991 and focussing on the countryside, this book examines patterns of settlement and agriculture in Scotland and considers how these were increasingly altered during the 17th and 18th Centuries by the first Improvers and then by the more widespread impact of the Agricultural Revolution. It considers the effect on the landscape of the changing role of the church, the development of improved communications and the rise of new industries. The book analyses in detail the ways in which the landscape changed in Scotland’s transition from a medieval, impoverished country and an undeveloped economy to a modern society and one of the most highly urbanised countries in Europe.
Author : Christopher A. Whatley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 10,17 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780719045417
This book challenges conventional wisdom and provides new insights into Scottish social and economic history. Christopher A. Whatley argues that the Union of 1707 was vital for Scottish success, but in ways which have hitherto been overlooked. He proposes that the central place of Jacobitism in the historiography of the period should be revised. Comprehensive in its coverage, the book is based not only on an exhaustive reading of secondary material but also incorporates a wealth of new evidence from previously little-used or unused primary sources.
Author : Cairns Craig
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,15 MB
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748679332
A major reconsideration of our understanding of the development of Scottish culture from the Enlightenment to the present day.
Author : Tom M. Devine
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 27,63 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1788854063
Between the early eighteenth and the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Scottish society was transformed by industrialisation, urbanisation and major changes in agriculture and rural society. The rate of town and city growth was among the fastest in western Europe, migration and emigration accelerated and the traditional way of life in the Highland and Lowland countryside was brought to an end through the pressures of market demand and landlord strategy. Such a major upheaval created increased social tension. Conflict and Stabilitiy in Scottish Society challenges the previously accepted view that this major upheaval in Scottish life did not stimulate much unrest and that a modern industrial society developed relatively smoothly. The papers here, given at the Scottish Historical Studies Seminar at Strathclyde University in 1988–89, suggest that protest was more common, more enduring and more diverse than is usually supposed.
Author : Adam Fox
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 17,11 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0192508814
The Press and the People is the first full-length study of cheap print in early modern Scotland. It traces the production and distribution of ephemeral publications from the nation's first presses in the early sixteenth century through to the age of Burns in the late eighteenth. It explores the development of the Scottish book trade in general and the production of slight and popular texts in particular. Focusing on the means by which these works reached a wide audience, it illuminates the nature of their circulation in both urban and rural contexts. Specific chapters examine single-sheet imprints such as ballads and gallows speeches, newssheets and advertisements, as well as the little pamphlets that contained almanacs and devotional works, stories and songs. The book demonstrates just how much more of this literature was once printed than now survives and argues that Scotland had a much larger market for such material than has been appreciated. By illustrating the ways in which Scottish printers combined well-known titles from England with a distinctive repertoire of their own, The Press and the People transforms our understanding of popular literature in early modern Scotland and its contribution to British culture more widely.
Author : Rosemary O'Day
Publisher : London ; New York : Longman
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,17 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Education
ISBN :
Evolution de la notion d'éducation et, par la même, de la place de l'enfant dans la famille et dans la société.