Scottish Society, 1707-1830

by Whatley, Christopher A.

• ISBN13: 9780719045400
• ISBN10: 0719045401
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-15
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

This book challenges much conventional wisdom and provides readers with many new insights into Scottish social and economic history. Christopher A. Whatley argues that the Union of 1707 was vital for Scottish success, but in ways which have hitherto been overlooked. He proposes that the central place of Jacobitism in the historiography of the period should be revised. Comprehensive in its coverage, the book is based not only on an exhaustive reading of secondary material but also incorporates a wealth of new evidence from previously little-used or unused primary sources.

Author Biography

Christopher A. Whatley is Professor of Scottish History at the University of Dundee.

Table of Contents

List of maps and figures	viii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(15)
The seventeenth-century legacy	16	(32)
The Union and the first economic transition, c. 1707- c. 1778	48	(48)
Political economy and Scottish development	96	(46)
Scottish society, c. 1707 - c. 1778 (I): investigating stability and protest	142	(42)
Scottish society, c. 1707 - c. 1778 (II): political integration and the struggle over the market economy	184	(35)
Scotland's first industrial revolution, c. 1778 - c. 1830	219	(44)
Scottish society in the age of revolutions	263	(38)
Making and breaking of the Scottish working class	301	(37)
Select bibliography	338	(6)
Index	344