RHN 94/2024 | Publication
Harriet Cornell, Julian Goodare and Alan R. MacDonald (eds.), Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland (Boydell Studies in Rural History, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer 2024), DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781805432753.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Exploring Scotland’s Agricultural History
Harriet Cornell, Julian Goodare, Alan R. MacDonald
Imagining Scottish Agriculture before the Improvers
Julian Goodare
The Use of Dykes in Scottish Farming 1500–1700
Briony Kincaid
The Famine of 1622–23 in Scotland
Kevin Hall
Weather and Farming through the Eyes of a Sixteenth-Century Highland Peasant
Julian Goodare
Stock, Fermes, Mails and Duties in a Midlothian Barony 1587–89
Norah Carlin
The Roots of Improvement: Early Seventeenth-Century Agriculture on the Mains of Dundas, Linlithgowshire
Alan R. MacDonald
‘God Knowis my Sleipis ar Short and Unsound’: Andro Smyth’s Collection of Rent, Tax, Teind and Tolls in Shetland c.1640
Brian Smith
Farming in the Stirling Area 1560–1750
John G. Harrison
What Were the Fiars Prices Used For?
T. C. Smout
Agriculture and Banking in Eighteenth-Century Scotland 1695–1750
Gains Murdoch
Capitalism’s Cradle? Ideas, Policies and the Rise of the Scottish Economy in the Mercantilist Age 1600–1800
Philipp Robinson Rössner
Conclusion: A Historiographical and Bibliographical Overview
R. A. Houston
Full table of contents here.
Source: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/agriculture-economy-and-society-in-early-modern-scotland/