From chiefs to landlords : social and economic change in the Western Highlands and Islands, c1493-1820 /
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès francès |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
©1998.
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvxcrwkp |
Taula de continguts:
- List of figures and tables
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The Western Highlands and islands in context, c. 1493-1820
- 2. Chiefs, kinsmen and territories
- 3. The nature of the chiefly economy
- 4. Patterns of chiefly display and behavior
- 5. The transformation of chiefs into landlords
- 6. The farming township and the institutional basis of farming
- 7. The township economy
- 8. The farming township: Its strategies and constraints
- 9. The Western Highlands and islands on the eve of the clearances
- Bibliography
- Index.