Land and Society in Early Scotland
Author | : Robert A. Dodgshon |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Scotland |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert A. Dodgshon |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Scotland |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Harriet Cornell |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2024-04-23 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1837650489 |
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.
Author | : Robert A. Dodgshon |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Julian Goodare |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1999-09-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191542881 |
This is the first full scholarly study of state formation and the exercise of state power in Scotland. It sets the Scottish state in a British and European context, revealing that Scotland — like larger and better-known states — developed a more integrated governmental system in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This study provides an invaluable new contribution to the history of Scotland. Julian Goodare shows how the magnates ceased to exercise autonomous local power, and instead managed the new administrative structure through client networks. The state no longer drew its main revenues from land, but developed new taxes; its fighting forces were modernized and detached from landed power. With the Reformation, powerful church institutions were created, and were gradually integrated into the state. The states territorial integrity increased, giving it a closer and more troubled relationship with the Highlands. Scotland remained a sovereign state even after the union of crowns in 1603, but it was finally absorbed by England in 1707, and Dr Goodare examines the long-term context of this development.
Author | : Robert Allen Houston |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2005-04-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521891677 |
The volume covers many of the most significant themes in pre-industrial Scottish society.
Author | : Malcolm Combe |
Publisher | : Scotland's Land |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Land reform |
ISBN | : 9781474446853 |
A stimulating rethink of contemporary land reform in Scotland from historical, legal, and socio-economic perspectives Land reform is as topical as ever in Scotland. Following the latest legislative development, the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016, there is a need for a comprehensive and comprehensible analysis of the history, developing framework and impact of Scottish land reform. Scholarly yet jargon-free, this landmark volume brings together leading researchers and commentators working in law, history and policy to analyse the past, present and future of Scottish land reform. It covers how Scotland's land is regulated, used and managed; why and how this has come to pass; and makes some suggestions as to the future of land reform. Key features: - Offers a holistic approach to land reform in Scotland; - Draws on case studies of land policies in the UK, mainland Europe and the USA to allow comparison and contextualisation of Scottish land reform with other models; - Examines the significance of right to property on the land reform process, and looks at how it is now being used as an impetus for economic and social rights reform; - Designed to suit individual academic specialisms, while still being accessible to readers across disciplines and professions. Malcolm M. Combe is a Senior Lecturer in law at the University of Strathclyde and non-practising solicitor Jayne Glass is a Land Use Policy Researcher at Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) and Honorary Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh Annie Tindley is a Senior Lecturer in modern British History at the Newcastle University
Author | : Neville Cynthia J. Neville |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2012-10-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0748664637 |
This ambitious book, newly available in paperback, examines the encounter between Gaels and Europeans in Scotland in the central Middle Ages, offering new insights into an important period in the formation of the Scots' national identity. It is based on a close reading of the texts of several thousand charters, indentures, brieves and other written sources that record the business conducted in royal and baronial courts across the length and breadth of the medieval kingdom between 1150 and 1400.Under the broad themes of land, law and people, this book explores how the customs, laws and traditions of the native inhabitants and those of incoming settlers interacted and influenced each other. Drawing on a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, the author places her subject matter firmly within the recent historiography of the British Isles and demonstrates how the experience of Scotland was both similar to, and a distinct manifestation of, a wider process of Europeanisation.
Author | : Ian Whyte |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1997-01-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349253073 |
During the last twenty years there has been an explosion of new research into the development of Scotland from a small, backward country on the periphery of Europe to one poised to undergo industrialisation in step with England. This book provides an overview of key themes related to social change and economic development in early Modern Scotland aimed at demonstrating how this transformation occurred.
Author | : Charles W J Withers |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2015-12-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317332806 |
This book, originally published in 1988, examines the Highlands and Islands of Scotland over several centuries and charts their cultural transformation from a separate region into one where the processes of anglicisation have largely succeeded. It analyses the many aspects of change including the policies of successive governments, the decline of the Gaelic language, the depressing of much of the population into peasantry and the clearances.
Author | : Chris J. Dalglish |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2006-04-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0306479400 |
My interest in the archaeology of the Scottish Highlands began long before I had any formal training in the subject. Growing up on the eastern fringes of the southern Highlands, close to Loch Lomond, it was not hard stumble across ruined buildings, old field boundaries, and other traces of everyday life in the past. This is especially true if you spend much time, as I have done, climbing the nearby mountains and walking and driving through the various glens that give access into the Highlands. At the time, I had no real understanding of these remains, simply accepting them as being built and old. After studying archaeology for a few years at the University of Glasgow, itself only a short commute from the area where I grew up, I became acutely aware that I still had no real understanding of these - miliar, yet enigmatic, buildings and fields. This and a growing interest in Scotland’s historical archaeology drove me to take several courses on the subject of rural settlement studies. These courses allowed me to place what I now knew to be houses, barns, mills, shieling (transhumance) settlements, rig-and-furrow cultivation, and other related remains in history. Overwhelmingly, they seemed to date from the period of the last 300 years. I also began to understand how they all worked together as component parts of daily rural life in the past.