Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland

HARRIET CORNELL is Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PeaceRep) Programme Manager, Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh. JULIAN GOODARE is Emeritus Professor of History, University of Edinburgh. His books include The European Witch-Hunt (London, 2016), and he has edited three books about witchcraft in Scotland. He is Director of the online Survey of Scottish Witchcraft. ALAN R. MacDONALD is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Dundee.

• Introduction: Exploring Scotland's Agricultural History - Harriet Cornell, Julian Goodare and Alan R. MacDonald 1. Imagining Scottish Agriculture Before the Improvers - Julian Goodare 2. The Use of Dykes in Scottish Farming 1500-1700 - Briony Kincaid 3. The Famine of 1622-23 in Scotland - Kevin Hall 4. Weather and Farming through the Eyes of a Sixteenth-Century Highland Peasant - Julian Goodare 5. Stock, Fermes, Mails and Duties in a Midlothian Barony 1587-89 - Norah Carlin 6. The Roots of Improvement: Early Seventeenth-Century Agriculture on the Mains of Dundas, Linlithgowshire - Alan R. MacDonald 7. 'God Knowis my Sleipisar Short and Unsound': Andro Smyth's Collection of Rent, Tax, Teind and Tolls in Shetland c.1640 - Brian Smith 8. Farming in the Stirling Area 1560-1750 - John G. Harrison 9. What Were the Fiars Prices Used For? - T. C. Smout 10. Agriculture and Banking in Eighteenth-Century Scotland 1695-1750 - Gains Murdoch 11. Capitalism's Cradle? Ideas, Policies, and the Rise of the Scottish Economy in the Mercantilist Age 1600-1800 - Philipp Robinson Rössner Conclusion: An Historiographical and Bibliographical Overview - R. A. Houston Index

This volume illustrates how broad-ranging this research tradition has become in the last thirtyyears, extending well beyond the study of commercialization and the reorganization of fertile land, to encompass histories of identity, landscape, popular experience, and state capacity. Despite this breadth of ambition, the volume retains and sustains a coherent, though varied, account of a set of communities that underwent significant changes from the late medieval period onward, but for which the rate and scale of transformation accelerated after 1750.