Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Currency and Measures
- Abbreviations
- Map of Scotland
- Introduction: Exploring Scotland’s Agricultural History
- 1 Imagining Scottish Agriculture before the Improvers
- 2 The Use of Dykes in Scottish Farming 1500–1700
- 3 The Famine of 1622–23 in Scotland
- 4 Weather and Farming through the Eyes of a Sixteenth-Century Highland Peasant
- 5 Stock, Fermes, Mails and Duties in a Midlothian Barony 1587–89
- 6 The Roots of Improvement: Early Seventeenth-Century Agriculture on the Mains of Dundas, Linlithgowshire
- 7 ‘God Knowis my Sleipis ar Short and Unsound’: Andro Smyth’s Collection of Rent, Tax, Teind and Tolls in Shetland c.1640
- 8 Farming in the Stirling Area 1560–1750
- 9 What Were the Fiars Prices Used For?
- 10 Agriculture and Banking in Eighteenth-Century Scotland 1695–1750
- 11 Capitalism’s Cradle? Ideas, Policies and the Rise of the Scottish Economy in the Mercantilist Age 1600–1800
- Conclusion: A Historiographical and Bibliographical Overview
- Index
- Boydell Studies in Rural History
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 May 2024
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Currency and Measures
- Abbreviations
- Map of Scotland
- Introduction: Exploring Scotland’s Agricultural History
- 1 Imagining Scottish Agriculture before the Improvers
- 2 The Use of Dykes in Scottish Farming 1500–1700
- 3 The Famine of 1622–23 in Scotland
- 4 Weather and Farming through the Eyes of a Sixteenth-Century Highland Peasant
- 5 Stock, Fermes, Mails and Duties in a Midlothian Barony 1587–89
- 6 The Roots of Improvement: Early Seventeenth-Century Agriculture on the Mains of Dundas, Linlithgowshire
- 7 ‘God Knowis my Sleipis ar Short and Unsound’: Andro Smyth’s Collection of Rent, Tax, Teind and Tolls in Shetland c.1640
- 8 Farming in the Stirling Area 1560–1750
- 9 What Were the Fiars Prices Used For?
- 10 Agriculture and Banking in Eighteenth-Century Scotland 1695–1750
- 11 Capitalism’s Cradle? Ideas, Policies and the Rise of the Scottish Economy in the Mercantilist Age 1600–1800
- Conclusion: A Historiographical and Bibliographical Overview
- Index
- Boydell Studies in Rural History
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- Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland , pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2024