
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1 The ideal of Scottish literacy
- 2 Structures and trends in illiteracy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- 3 Illiteracy in mid seventeenth-century Britain
- 4 The reasons for literacy
- 5 Measures of literacy
- 6 Oral culture and literate culture
- 7 The politics of literacy
- 8 Literacy and the Scottish identity
- Appendices
- 1 Sources for the study of Scottish and English literacy
- 2 Bookownership in the Highlands and Islands
- 3 List of active Scottish burghs, 1650–1750
- Bibligraphy
- Index
2 - Bookownership in the Highlands and Islands
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1 The ideal of Scottish literacy
- 2 Structures and trends in illiteracy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- 3 Illiteracy in mid seventeenth-century Britain
- 4 The reasons for literacy
- 5 Measures of literacy
- 6 Oral culture and literate culture
- 7 The politics of literacy
- 8 Literacy and the Scottish identity
- Appendices
- 1 Sources for the study of Scottish and English literacy
- 2 Bookownership in the Highlands and Islands
- 3 List of active Scottish burghs, 1650–1750
- Bibligraphy
- Index
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- Scottish Literacy and the Scottish IdentityIlliteracy and Society in Scotland and Northern England, 1600–1800, pp. 297 - 300Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985