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A history of the Scottish people, 1560-1830,

History

Smout, T.C.

Europe

HarperCollins Distribution Services

This, R.F.Mackenzie's last book, describes the countryside, towns, ports and cities of Scotland. As well as being a travel book, it is also a commentary on modern Scotland, reflecting the author's love of the country and his attitudes towards the ills of contemporary humanity. The author has also written "Escape from the Classroom", "The Sins of the Children" and "State School".

A Search for Scotland

Travel

Mackenzie, R.F.

HarperCollins, Publishers

An anthology which presents an account of the lives of the Scottish people across the centuries, including the crofters of the West Highlands or St Kilda, the fruit farmers of Blairgowrie, jute workers in Dundee, and aspirant lawyers in Edinburgh. The book uses first-hand accounts which provide interpretations by individuals of their own lives, without sentiment and without exaggeration. The author also wrote "A History of Scottish People, 1560-1830" and "A Century of the Scottish People, 1830-1960".

Scottish voices, 1745-1960

WOOD, SYDNEY

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Physical description; 318p. : illus. Subjects; Scotland - History - 19th century. British &amp; Irish history.

'A CENTURY OF THE SCOTTISH PEOPLE, 1830-1950'

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('By far the most stimulating, the most instructive and the most readable account of Scotch history that I have read! This splendid work carries us from Knox to Neilson, from the hot gospel of Calvin to the hot-blast of the smelting process -- and, incidentally, seeks to explain the change. For always, in following this lucid narrative, we see an original mind at work, questioning and explaining, as well as illustrating.' Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Times)

HISTORY SCOTTISH PEOPLE

Fontana Press, London

A new cover reprint of the second volume of T. C. Smout’s magnificent – and indispensable – account of the Scottish people, from 1830–1950.
‘Professor Smout’s “History of the Scottish People 1560–1830” was hailed as a classic piece of social history. If you had time to read only one book on Scotland, this was it…Unfortunately, you now have to read two…“A Century of the Scottish People” is as satisfying and enlightening as its predecessor.’ John Kenyon, Observer
‘An admirable example of how academic history may yet be written for the general reader. It is deeply enjoyable, lively, packed with interesting detail, illuminating anecdote and pithy observation.’ Allan Massie, The Times

Century of the Scottish People: 1830–1950

Fontana Press

Looking at some of the aspects of the social history of Scotland from 1745 to 1960, this book uses such themes as work, love, celebration, religion, sickness, shopping and travel, to illustrate the history of ordinary people doing everyday things. Subjects and incidents cited include William Cobbett visiting a peasant bothy outside Edinburgh in 1832, a first-hand account of the Glasgow tenements between the wars, middle-class affluence in early 19th century Edinburgh and life both above and below stairs in the grand houses of the gentry in the 1950s. There is reportage from the Clearances set beside the letters and diary entries of the first recreational explorers of the Highlands - the sportsmen and tourists.

Scottish Voices 1745-1960

In recent years there has been a great deal of discussion about Victorian values. This collection, the outcome of the first joint symposium between the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, attempts to sift through the myths to illustrate how the reality of the Victorian age differs from modern perceptions.

Victorian Values: A Joint Symposium of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy, December 1990 (Proceedings of the British Academy)

Oxford University Press

A new cover reprint of the second volume of T. C. Smout's magnificent -- and indispensable -- account of the Scottish people, from 1830--1950. 'Professor Smout's "History of the Scottish People 1560--1830" was hailed as a classic piece of social history. If you had time to read only one book on Scotland, this was it!Unfortunately, you now have to read two!"A Century of the Scottish People" is as satisfying and enlightening as its predecessor.' John Kenyon, Observer 'An admirable example of how academic history may yet be written for the general reader. It is deeply enjoyable, lively, packed with interesting detail, illuminating anecdote and pithy observation.' Allan Massie, The Times

A Century of the Scottish People, 1830-1950

Yale Univ Pr

This is the first study of Scottish price history to be published, and a major contribution to the economic and social history of early modern and pre-industrial Britain. Using the remarkable series of "fiars" prices for grains and other contemporary sources, Gibson and Smout focus, in particular, on the prices of grain, meal and animal products, and assess how Scots laborers could survive in an economy that could pay only very low money wages. Their conclusions make a powerful contribution to the perennial debate on the standard of living of ordinary people prior to industrialization.

Prices, Food and Wages in Scotland, 1550–1780

Business & Money

Gibson, A. J. S.

Economics

Cambridge University Press

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