'Merchant class of the larger Scottish towns in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries' in G Gordon & B Dicks (eds), Scottish Urban History

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Explores the relative contribution of countryside and town in economic change in Scotland, doing so through merchant communities in the largest burghs of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee, to 'demonstrate that they did not remain immune from the wider economic changes of the period and that their 'conservatism' has been exaggerated'. Has sections: 'The institutional framework of mercantile activity'; 'The social composition of the merchant class'; 'Patterns of investment among the greater merchants'