Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: Scottish society in perspective
- 1 Population mobility in early modern Scotland
- 2 Scottish food and Scottish history, 1500–1800
- 3 Continuity and change in urban society, 1500–1700
- 4 Women in the economy and society of Scotland, 1500–1800
- 5 Social responses to agrarian ‘improvement’: the Highland and Lowland clearances in Scotland
- 6 ‘Pretense of blude’ and ‘place of thair dwelling’: the nature of highland clans, 1500–1745
- 7 North and south: the development of the gulf in Poor Law practice
- 8 Scotland and Ireland, 1600–1800: their role in the evolution of British society
- 9 Kindred adjoining kingdoms: an English perspective on the social and economic history of early modern Scotland
- Bibliography of printed sources and secondary works
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: Scottish society in perspective
- 1 Population mobility in early modern Scotland
- 2 Scottish food and Scottish history, 1500–1800
- 3 Continuity and change in urban society, 1500–1700
- 4 Women in the economy and society of Scotland, 1500–1800
- 5 Social responses to agrarian ‘improvement’: the Highland and Lowland clearances in Scotland
- 6 ‘Pretense of blude’ and ‘place of thair dwelling’: the nature of highland clans, 1500–1745
- 7 North and south: the development of the gulf in Poor Law practice
- 8 Scotland and Ireland, 1600–1800: their role in the evolution of British society
- 9 Kindred adjoining kingdoms: an English perspective on the social and economic history of early modern Scotland
- Bibliography of printed sources and secondary works
- Index
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- Scottish Society, 1500–1800 , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989