The Rise And Fall Of The Scottish Cotton Industry 1778 1914

Author : Anthony Cooke
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0719080827

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The Rise and Fall of the Scottish Cotton Industry, 1778-1914 by Anthony Cooke Pdf

This is the first full-length history of the Scottish cotton industry, from its beginnings in the late eighteenth century to its premature decline in the years leading up to the First World War. The book examines the industry chronologically and through themes such as precursors, technology, capital and employers, markets, labor and work, placed within their broader economic and scoial contexts. Its account of the cotton industry is set within important historiographical debates such as proto-industrialization, the speed of industrial change, the diffusion of technology, the labor process, paternalism, workplace control, entrepreneurship and theories of industrial decline. Cotton was Scotland's premier industry during the Industrial Revolution and this book will be welcomed by specialists, students and interested readers alike.

Author : Steven Toms
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783275090

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Financing Cotton by Steven Toms Pdf

This book links the world of finance directly to the fate of the cotton and textile industry, long a metaphor for the rise and fall of Britain as a manufacturing economy, for the first time.

Author : Barbara Hahn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107186804

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Technology in the Industrial Revolution by Barbara Hahn Pdf

Places the British Industrial Revolution in global context, providing a fresh perspective on the relationship between technology and society.

Author : Andreas Malm
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784781309

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Fossil Capital by Andreas Malm Pdf

A sweeping study of how capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power—and contributed to the worsening climate crisis The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess? In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all began in Britain with the rise of steam power. But why did manufacturers turn from traditional sources of power, notably water mills, to an engine fired by coal? Contrary to established views, steam offered neither cheaper nor more abundant energy—but rather superior control of subordinate labor. Animated by fossil fuels, capital could concentrate production at the most profitable sites and during the most convenient hours, as it continues to do today. Sweeping from nineteenth-century Manchester to the emissions explosion in China, from the original triumph of coal to the stalled shift to renewables, this study hones in on the burning heart of capital and demonstrates, in unprecedented depth, that turning down the heat will mean a radical overthrow of the current economic order. “The definitive deep history on how our economic system created the climate crisis. Superb, essential reading from one of the most original thinkers on the subject.” —Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine

Author : Alex Benchimol,Gerard Lee McKeever
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351056403

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Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707-1840 by Alex Benchimol,Gerard Lee McKeever Pdf

The first applied research volume in Scottish Romanticism, this collection foregrounds the concept of progress as 'improvement' as a constitutive theme of Scottish writing during the long eighteenth century. It explores improvement as the animating principle behind Scotland’s post-1707 project of modernization, a narrative both shaped and reflected in the literary sphere. It represents a vital moment in Romantic studies, as a 'four-nations' interrogation of the British context reaches maturity. Equally, the volume contributes to a central concern in the study of Scottish culture, amplifying a critical synthesis of Romanticism and Enlightenment. The conceptual motif of improvement allows an illumination of the boundaries (and beyond) of conventional notions of Romanticism, tracing its long, evolving imbrication with Enlightenment in Scotland. Exploring the holistic treatment of improvement in Scottish literature, chapter-studies include work on agricultural improvement and processes of commercialization, polite cultural renewal and the cotton trade, an expanding print culture and spirituality in death rituals. Taken as a whole, this amounts to an interdisciplinary re-consideration of the central role of improvement in Scottish cultural history of the long eighteenth century, of interest to a wide range of scholars, reflecting the vitality of the exchange between Enlightenment and Romanticism in Scotland.

Author : Viccy Coltman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108417686

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Art and Identity by Viccy Coltman Pdf

This lively and erudite cultural history examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways.

Author : Anthony Cooke
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781474400138

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History of Drinking by Anthony Cooke Pdf

This book examines continuity and change in the functions of Scottish drinking places.

Author : William Knox,Mary S. Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012374851

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Hanging by a Thread by William Knox,Mary S. Thompson Pdf

Author : Gerard Carruthers,Kevin Thomas Gallagher,Craig Lamont,George Smith
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788855334

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1820: Scottish Rebellion by Gerard Carruthers,Kevin Thomas Gallagher,Craig Lamont,George Smith Pdf

The 1820 Scottish Rising has been increasingly studied in recent decades. This collection of essays looks especially at local players on the ground across multiple regional centres in the west of Scotland, as well as the wider political circumstances within government and civil society that provide the rising's context. It examines insurrectionist preparation by radicals, the progress of the events of 1820, contemporary accounts and legacy memorialisation of 1820, including newspaper and literary testimony, and the monumental 'afterlife' of the rising. As well as the famous march of radicals led by John Baird and Andrew Hardie, so often seen as the centre of the 1820 'moment', this volume casts light on other, more neglected insurrectionary activity within the rising and a wide set of cultural circumstances that make 1820 more complex than many would like to believe. 1820: Scottish Rebellion demonstrates that the legacy of 1820 may be approached in numerous ways that cross disciplinary boundaries and cause us to question conventional historical interpretations.

Author : Alistair Mutch
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781474403443

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Religion and National Identity by Alistair Mutch Pdf

What is the enduring impact of Presbyterianism on what it means to be Scottish?Presbyterianism has shaped Scotland and its impact on the world. Behind its beliefs lie some distinctive practices of governance which endure even when belief fades. These practices place a particular emphasis on the detailed recording of decisions and what we can term a 'systemic' form of accountability.This book examines the emergence and consolidation of such practices in the 18th-century Church of Scotland. Using extensive archival research and detailed local case studies, it contrasts them to what is termed a 'personal' form of accountability in England in the same period. The wider impact of the systemic approach to governance and accountability, especially in the United States of America, is explored, as is the enduring impact on Scottish identity.This book offers a fresh perspective on the Presbyterian legacy in contemporary Scottish historiography, at the same time as informing current debates on national identity.Key Features:A novel focus on religion as social practice, as opposed to belief or organizationA strong focus on Scotland, but in the context of BritainExtensive archival work in the Church of Scotland records, with an emphasis on form as well as contentA different focus on the Church of Scotland in the eighteenth centuryOffers a detailed focus on local practice in the context of national debates

Author : Alistair Mutch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351058131

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Reframing Institutional Logics by Alistair Mutch Pdf

How are we to characterise the context in which organisations operate? The notion that organisational activity is shaped by institutional logics has been influential but it presents a number of problems. The criteria by which institutions are identified, the conflation of institutions with organisations, the enduring nature of those institutions and an exaggerated focus on change are all concerns that existing perspectives do not tackle adequately. This book uses the resources of historical work to suggest new ways of looking at institutional logics. It builds on the work of Roger Friedland who has conceived of institutional logics being animated by adherence to a core substance that is immanent in practices. Development of this idea in the context of organisation theory is supported by ideas drawn from the work of the social theorist Margaret Archer and the broader resources of the philosophical tradition of critical realism. Institutions are seen to emerge over time from the embodied relations of humans to each other and to the natural world on which they depend for material existence. Once emergent, institutions develop their own logics and endure to form the context in which agents are involuntarily placed and that conditions their activity. The approach adopted offers resources to ‘bring society back in’ to the study of organisations. The book will appeal to graduate students who are engaging with institutional theory in their research. It will also be of interest to scholars of institutional theory, of the history of organisations and those seeking to apply ideas from critical realism to their research.

Author : Massimo Mastrogregori
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110341744

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2010 by Massimo Mastrogregori Pdf

Every year, the Bibliography catalogues the most important new publications, historiographical monographs, and journal articles throughout the world, extending from prehistory and ancient history to the most recent contemporary historical studies. Within the systematic classification according to epoch, region, and historical discipline, works are also listed according to author’s name and characteristic keywords in their title.

Author : Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300163742

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Enlightenment's Frontier by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson Pdf

DIVEnlightenment’s Frontier is the first book to investigate the environmental roots of the Scottish Enlightenment. What was the place of the natural world in Adam Smith’s famous defense of free trade? Fredrik Albritton Jonsson recovers the forgotten networks of improvers and natural historians that sought to transform the soil, plants, and climate of Scotland in the eighteenth century. The Highlands offered a vast outdoor laboratory for rival liberal and conservative views of nature and society. But when the improvement schemes foundered toward the end of the century, northern Scotland instead became a crucible for anxieties about overpopulation, resource exhaustion, and the physical limits to economic growth. In this way, the rise and fall of the Enlightenment in the Highlands sheds new light on the origins of environmentalism./div

Author : Katie Donington,Ryan Hanley,Jessica Moody
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781382776

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Britain's History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery by Katie Donington,Ryan Hanley,Jessica Moody Pdf

Transatlantic slavery, just like the abolition movements, affected every space and community in Britain, from Cornwall to the Clyde, from dockyard alehouses to country estates. Today, its financial, architectural and societal legacies remain, scattered across the country in museums and memorials, philanthropic institutions and civic buildings, empty spaces and unmarked graves. Just as they did in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, British people continue to make sense of this 'national sin' by looking close to home, drawing on local histories and myths to negotiate their relationship to the distant horrors of the 'Middle Passage', and the Caribbean plantation. For the first time, this collection brings together localised case studies of Britain's history and memory of its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, and slavery. These essays, ranging in focus from eighteenth-century Liverpool to twenty-first-century rural Cambridgeshire, from racist ideologues to Methodist preachers, examine how transatlantic slavery impacted on, and continues to impact, people and places across Britain.

Author : Steven Mithen
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788853095

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Land of the Ilich by Steven Mithen Pdf

As an archaeologist, Steven Mithen has worked on the Hebridean island of Islay over a period of many years. In this book he introduces the sites and monuments and tells the story of the island's people from the earliest stone age hunter-gatherers to those who lived in townships and in the grandeur of Islay House. He visits the tombs of Neolithic farmers, forts of Iron Age chiefs and castles of medieval warlords, discovers where Bronze Age gold was found, treacherous plots were made against the Scottish crown, and explores the island of today, which was forged more recently by those who mined for lead, grew flax, fished for herring and distilled whisky – the industry for which the island is best known today. Although an island history, this is far from an insular story: Islay has always been at a cultural crossroads, receiving a constant influx of new people and new ideas, making it a microcosm for the story of Scotland, Britain and beyond.