This collection from one of Scotland's most eminent historians contains several essays which appear on university reading lists for undergraduate study.
Drawing on his researches over a twenty-year period, T. M. Devine has grouped his studies into four main categories: Merchants, Union and Trade; Scottish Economic Development; The Highlands; and The Rural Lowlands.
A collection of essays which explore the history of Scottish society. Topics discussed include merchants and trade, Scottish economic development, the highlands and rural lowlands.
Part 1 Merchants, Union and Trade: Scottish Burghs and the Cromwellian
Union, 1652-1660; The Merchant class of the larger Scottish Towns in the
Seventeenth and early Eighteenth centuries; The Union of 1707 and Scottish
Development; Colonial Commerce and the Scottish Economy 1730-1815; A Glasgow
Merchant during the American War of Independence; An Eighteenth Century
Business Elite. Part 2 Scottish Economic Development: Scotland in the Reign
on James VI; The English Connection and Irish Scottish Development in the
Eighteenth Century; The Making of Urban and Industrial Society. Part III The
Highlands: Social Responses to Agrarian Improvement: the Highland Clearances
in Scotland; Temporary Migration and the Scottish Highlands in the Nineteenth
Century; The Landed Class and the Great Highland Famine. Part IV The Rural
Lowlands: Glasgow Colonial Merchants; Social Stability and Agrarian Change in
the Eastern Lowlands of Scotland; Farm Service in the Scottish Agricultural
Revolution; Women Workers 1850-1914.
Sir Tom Devine is the Sir William Fraser Professor Emeritus of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author or editor of more that forty books on Scottish historical studies and related fields. The only historian to be knighted by HM The Queen for services to the study of Scottish history, he has been described by The Times newspaper as as close to a national bard as the nation has.
