Author: Thomas Martin Devine
Publisher: John Donald
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This collection of essays provides a history of farm service and labour in lowland Scotland from the agricultural revolution of the late 18th century to the outbreak of the First World War.
Farm Servants and Labour in Lowland Scotland, 1770-1914
Author: Thomas Martin Devine
Publisher: John Donald
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This collection of essays provides a history of farm service and labour in lowland Scotland from the agricultural revolution of the late 18th century to the outbreak of the First World War.
Publisher: John Donald
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This collection of essays provides a history of farm service and labour in lowland Scotland from the agricultural revolution of the late 18th century to the outbreak of the First World War.
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Scotland's Populations from the 1850s to Today
Author: Michael Anderson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198805837
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Scotland's Populations is a coherent and comprehensive description and analysis of the most recent 170 years of Scottish population history. With its coverage of both national and local themes, set in the context of changes in Scottish economy and society, this study is an essential and definitive source for anyone teaching or writing on modern Scottish history, sociology, or geography. Michael Anderson explores subjects such as population growth and decline, rural settlement and depopulation, and migration and emigration. It sets current and recent population changes in their long-term context, exploring how the legacies of past demographic change have combined with a history of weak industrial investment, employment insecurity, deprivation, and poor living conditions to produce the population profiles and changes of Scotland today. While focussing on Scottish data, Anderson engages in a rigorous treatment of comparisons of Scotland with its neighbours in the British Isles and elsewhere in Europe, which ensures that this is more than a one-country study.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198805837
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Scotland's Populations is a coherent and comprehensive description and analysis of the most recent 170 years of Scottish population history. With its coverage of both national and local themes, set in the context of changes in Scottish economy and society, this study is an essential and definitive source for anyone teaching or writing on modern Scottish history, sociology, or geography. Michael Anderson explores subjects such as population growth and decline, rural settlement and depopulation, and migration and emigration. It sets current and recent population changes in their long-term context, exploring how the legacies of past demographic change have combined with a history of weak industrial investment, employment insecurity, deprivation, and poor living conditions to produce the population profiles and changes of Scotland today. While focussing on Scottish data, Anderson engages in a rigorous treatment of comparisons of Scotland with its neighbours in the British Isles and elsewhere in Europe, which ensures that this is more than a one-country study.
Scottish Society, 1707-1830
Author: Christopher A. Whatley
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719045417
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719045417
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
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.
British Economic and Social History
Author: R. C. Richardson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719036002
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719036002
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Urbanising Britain
Author: Gerard Kearns
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521364997
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The essays in this collection reflect the increasing use of social science concepts within the field of historical geography.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521364997
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The essays in this collection reflect the increasing use of social science concepts within the field of historical geography.
Scottish Women
Author: Esther Breitenbach
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748683402
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A sourcebook illustrating the experience of Scottish women from 1780-1914. Drawing on a wide range of source materials from across Scotland, this sourcebook provides new insights into women's attitudes to the society in which they lived, and how they negotiated their identities within private and public life.Organised in thematic chapters, it moves from the private and intimate experiences of sexuality, health and sickness to Scotswomen's migrations across the British empire, illustrating many facets of women's lives - domesticity and waged work, defiance of law and convention, religious faith and respectability, political action and public influence. A range of fascinating and rich source material sheds new light on the lives of women across Scotland throughout the long nineteenth century, demonstrating the pervasiveness of discourses of appropriate feminine behaviour, but also women's subversion of this. It raises challenging questions for researchers about the identification of women's voices, where these have been muted by class, religion, or ethnicity, while at the same time providing a methodology for uncovering these.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748683402
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A sourcebook illustrating the experience of Scottish women from 1780-1914. Drawing on a wide range of source materials from across Scotland, this sourcebook provides new insights into women's attitudes to the society in which they lived, and how they negotiated their identities within private and public life.Organised in thematic chapters, it moves from the private and intimate experiences of sexuality, health and sickness to Scotswomen's migrations across the British empire, illustrating many facets of women's lives - domesticity and waged work, defiance of law and convention, religious faith and respectability, political action and public influence. A range of fascinating and rich source material sheds new light on the lives of women across Scotland throughout the long nineteenth century, demonstrating the pervasiveness of discourses of appropriate feminine behaviour, but also women's subversion of this. It raises challenging questions for researchers about the identification of women's voices, where these have been muted by class, religion, or ethnicity, while at the same time providing a methodology for uncovering these.
Myth and materiality in a woman’s world
Author: Lynn Abrams
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1847793584
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Shetland has a history unique in Europe, for over the past two centuries it was a place where women dominated the family, economy, and the cultural imagination. Women ran households and crofts without men. They maintained families and communities because men were absent. And they constructed in their minds an identity of themselves as 'liberated' long before organised feminism was invented. And yet, Shetland is a place which was made by the most masculine of societies - those of the Picts, Scots and above all the Vikings - and its contemporary identity still draws on the heroic exploits and sagas of medieval Norsemen. This book examines how against this tradition Shetland became a female place, and offers answers as to how, in this most isolated island community, the inhabitants transgressed and reversed their traditional gender roles. Reconstructing this 'woman's world' from fragments of cultural experience captured in written and oral sources, this book will appeal to scholars in the fields of social and cultural history, social anthropology, gender and women's studies.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1847793584
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Shetland has a history unique in Europe, for over the past two centuries it was a place where women dominated the family, economy, and the cultural imagination. Women ran households and crofts without men. They maintained families and communities because men were absent. And they constructed in their minds an identity of themselves as 'liberated' long before organised feminism was invented. And yet, Shetland is a place which was made by the most masculine of societies - those of the Picts, Scots and above all the Vikings - and its contemporary identity still draws on the heroic exploits and sagas of medieval Norsemen. This book examines how against this tradition Shetland became a female place, and offers answers as to how, in this most isolated island community, the inhabitants transgressed and reversed their traditional gender roles. Reconstructing this 'woman's world' from fragments of cultural experience captured in written and oral sources, this book will appeal to scholars in the fields of social and cultural history, social anthropology, gender and women's studies.
Women in Agriculture
Author: Jane Potter Gates
Publisher:
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Category : Women in agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women in agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Agrarian Capitalism and Poor Relief in England, 1500-1860
Author: Larry Patriquin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230591388
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This book examines the evolution of public assistance for the poor in England from the late medieval era to the Industrial Revolution. Placing poor relief in the context of the unique class relations of agrarian capitalism, it considers how and why relief in England in the early modern period was distinct.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230591388
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This book examines the evolution of public assistance for the poor in England from the late medieval era to the Industrial Revolution. Placing poor relief in the context of the unique class relations of agrarian capitalism, it considers how and why relief in England in the early modern period was distinct.