"In the eighteenth century the old peasant society of lowland Scotland disappeared to be replaced by a new order of capitalist farmers and landless labourers. I
This book, originally published in 1988, examines the Highlands and Islands of Scotland over several centuries and charts their cultural transformation from a s
This is the first comprehensive history of the Scottish economy over the last three centuries to appear in a generation. Written by leading scholars in the fiel
Rural Scotland is a charged landscape, alive with history, soaked in myth and often rather sublime. For those of us living an urban existence, the countryside i
Social and economic changes included an increase in production of food and raw materials, in turn sustaining the remarkable growth of towns and cities over this