The first volume covers the period 1760 to 1830 in a series of stimulating and informative essays, all by eminent specialists, which include notes and suggestions for further reading.
The Demographic Regime (R.A. Houston) ? Urbanisation (T.M. Devine) ? Agrarian Change in the Rural Lowlands (Malcolm Gray) ? Scottish Gaeldom (A. Macinnes) ? The Landed Classes (R.H. Campbell) ? Rise of the Urban Middle Classes (S. Nenadic) ? Literary and Learned Culture (A. Murdoch and R. Sher) ? Religion and Social Change (C.G. Brown) ? Schooling, Literacy and Society (D.J. Withrington) ? The Standard of Living of the Working Classes (J.H. Treble) ? The Experience of Work (C.A. Whatley) ? The Poor Law (R. Mitchison) ? Patterns of Protest (W. Hamish Fraser) ? The Birth of Class (A. Clarke and A. Dickson).
Tom Devine is professor in the Centre of Scottish Studies at Aberdeen University. Rosalind Mitchison was professor of Social History at Edinburgh University between 1981 and 1986. She died in 2002.
Also available: People and Society Vol. 2 18301914 (ed. W. Hamish Fraser and R.J. Morris), ISBN 0859762114, ?14.99
People and Society Vol. 3 19141990 (ed. A. Dickson and J.H Treble), ISBN 0859762122, ?14.99.
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