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Author : Rosalind Mitchison,Peter Roebuck
Publisher : John Donald
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040796133
Author : Ian Whyte
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349253074
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 : T. M. Devine
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141985947
'A superb book ... Anybody interested in Scottish history needs to read it' Andrew Marr, Sunday Times Eighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world. But there was in the same period another side to the history of the nation. Many of Scotland's people were subjected to coercive and sometimes violent change, as traditional ways of life were overturned by the 'rational' exploitation of land use. The Scottish Clearances is a superb and highly original account of this sometimes terrible process, which changed the Lowland countryside forever, as it also did, more infamously, the old society of the Highlands. Based on a vast array of original sources, this pioneering book is the first to chart this tumultuous saga in one volume, with due attention to evictions and loss of land in both north and south of the Highland line. In the process, old myths are exploded and familiar assumptions undermined. With many fascinating details and the sense of an epic human story, The Scottish Clearances is an evocative memorial to all whose lives were irreparably changed in the interests of economic efficiency. This is a story of forced clearance, of the destruction of entire communities and of large-scale emigration. Some winners were able to adapt and exploit the new opportunities, but there were also others who lost everything. The clearances created the landscape of Scotland today, but it came at a huge price.
Author : M. McAuliffe,K. O'Donnell,L. Lane
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230238992
This book provides a much-needed historiographical overview of modern Irish History, which is often written mainly from a socio-political perspective. This guide offers a comprehensive account of Irish History in its manifold aspects such as family, famine, labour, institutional, women, cultural, art, identity and migration histories.
Author : Andy Bielenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134061013
Chapter Introduction -- part Part I The linen industry: The lead sector in the industrialisation of Ulster -- chapter 1 The evolution of the linen industry prior to mechanisation, 1700-1825 -- chapter 2 Transition: the first generation of wet spinners, 1825-50 -- chapter 3 The high watermark of the Ulster linen industry, 1850-1914 -- part Part II Southern comfort: The food, drink and tobacco industries -- chapter 4 The food-processing industries -- chapter 5 Drink and tobacco -- part PART III Missing links? Engineering, shipbuilding and the dearth of mineral wealth -- chapter 6 The mining and engineering industries -- chapter 7 Shipbuilding: An exception to the rule? -- part Part IV Construction and the Irish economy -- chapter 8 The timber trade and the Irish building industry.
Author : Louis M. Cullen,T. Christopher Smout
Publisher : Edinburgh : Donald
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCSC:32106000863677
Papers from a seminar held in Dublin in September 1976.
Author : Christopher A. Whatley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 071904541X
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.
Author : Michael Lynch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Scotland
ISBN : 9780199234820
Searchable online reference covers more than 20 centuries of history, and interpret history broadly, covering areas such as archaeology, climate, culture, languages, immigration, migration, and emigration. Multi-authored entries analyze key themes such as national identity, women and society, living standards, and religious belief across the centuries in an authoritative yet approachable way. The A-Z entries are complemented by maps, genealogies, a glossary, a chronology, and an extensive guide to further reading.--From title screen.
Author : Karen J. Cullen
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748641840
This book examines the climatic and economic origins of the last national famine to occur in Scotland, the nature and extent of the crisis which ensued, and what the impact of the famine was upon the population in demographic, economic and social terms. Current published knowledge about the causes, extent, and impact of the famine in Scotland is limited and many conclusions have been speculative in the absence of extensive research. Despite the critical importance of this crisis, one of the four disasters of the 1690s, which are widely acknowledged to have contributed to the economic arguments in favour of the Union of the Parliaments in 1707, the topic has been largely neglected and even underplayed by historians. This is the first full study of the famine, providing a unique scholarly examination of the causes, course, characteristics and consequences of the crisis. A comprehensive study of agricultural, climatic, economic, social and demographic issues, the book seeks to establish answers to the fundamental question concerning the event. How serious was it? Using detailed statistical and qualitative analysis, it discusses the regional factors that defined the famine, the impact on the population, and the interconnected causes of this traumatic event.
Author : R. C. Richardson,William Henry Chaloner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0719036003
Author : Christopher A Whatley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780748680283
Public opinion in Scotland in 1707 was sharply divided, between advocates of Union, opponents, and a large body of "don't knows". In 1706-7 it was party (and dynastic) advantage that was the main reason for opposition to the proposed union at elite level. Whatever the reasons now for maintaining the Union, they are in some important respects different from those which took Scotland into the Union, such as French aggression, securing the Revolution of 1688-89 and the defence of Protestantism. This new edition assesses the impact of the Union on Scottish society, including the bitter struggle with the Jacobites for acceptance of the union in the two decades that followed its inauguration. The book offers a radical new interpretation of the causes of union. Now, as in 1706-7, some kind of harmonious relationship with England has to be settled upon. There exists, on both sides of the border, mutual antipathy but also powerful bonds, of language, kin, and economics. In the case of Scotland there is a strong sense of being "different" from England--a separate nation. But arguably this was even more powerful in the mid-19th century when demand grew not for independence but Home Rule. As in 1707, economic considerations are central, even if the nature of these now are different--the Union was forged in an era of "muscular mercantilism". Perceptions of economic gain and loss affected behaviour in 1706-7 and continue to affect attitudes to the Union today. This new edition lends historical weight to the present-day arguments for and against Union.
Author : Eugenio F. Biagini,Mary E. Daly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107095588
This is the first textbook on the history of modern Ireland to adopt a social history perspective. Written by an international team of leading scholars, it draws on a wide range of disciplinary approaches and consistently sets Irish developments in a wider European and global context.
Author : Andrew Newby
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781474471282
This book focuses on the leading figures in radical politics in Ireland and Scottish highlands and explores the links between them. It deals with topics that have been at the centre of recent discussions on the Highland land question, the politics of the Irish community in Scotland, and the development of the labour movement in Scotland. The author argues that the Irish activists in the Scottish Highlands and in urban Scotland should be seen as adherents to notions of social and economic reform, such as land nationalisation, and not as Irish nationalists or Home Rulers. This leads him to make radical reassessments of the contributions of individuals such as John Ferguson, Michael Davitt and Edward McHugh. Andrew Newby looks closely at the political activities and ambitions of the Crofter MPs showing them to be a widely influential but diverse group: he reveals, for example, the extensive links between Angus Sutherland, the most radical of the Highland MPs, and John Ferguson's groupings of Irish political activists of urban Scotland. This is a balanced and vivid account of a turbulent period of modern Scottish history.
Author : Thomas Martin Devine
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
ISBN : 0719034817
This work charts the story of the people of the Scottish Highlands from the 1745 Jacobite uprising to the great crofter's rebellion in the 1880s - a story of defeat, social dissolution, emigration, rebellion and cultural revival.
Author : Leslie Clarkson,Margaret Crawford
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191543678
This book traces the history of food and famine in Ireland from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. It looks at what people ate and drank, and how this changed over time. The authors explore the economic and social forces which lay behind these changes as well as the more personal motives of taste, preference, and acceptability. They analyze the reasons why the potato became a major component of the diet for so many people during the eighteenth century as well as the diets of the middling and upper classes. This is not, however, simply a social history of food but it is a nutritional one as well, and the authors go on to explore the connection between eating, health, and disease. They look at the relationship between the supply of food and the growth of the population and then finally, and unavoidably in any history of the Irish and food, the issue of famine, examining first its likelihood and then its dreadful reality when it actually occurred.
