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Harriet Cornell, Julian Goodare, Alan R. MacDonald - Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland

Av Harriet Cornell, Julian Goodare, Alan R. MacDonald

Del 4 i serien Boydell Studies in Rural History

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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.
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HARRIET CORNELL is Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PeaceRep) Programme Manager, Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh. JULIAN GOODARE is Emeritus Professor of History, University of Edinburgh. His books include The European Witch-Hunt (London, 2016), and he has edited three books about witchcraft in Scotland. He is Director of the online Survey of Scottish Witchcraft. ALAN R. MacDONALD is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Dundee.

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This volume illustrates how broad-ranging this research tradition has become in the last thirtyyears, 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.

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