Source Book of Scottish Economic and Social History
Details:
- Author(s) Campbell, Roy H, & J B A Dow
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1968
- Pages 280pp
- Publisher Basil Blackwell
- Place Published Oxford
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Seeks 'to provide raw material which teachers and students of Scottish history can use for a variety of purposes'. Contains extracts from documents such as Parliamentary Papers, Statistical Account of Scotland, Acts of Parliament, contemporary monographs and articles, archive documents, etc, for c17th to 20th centuries. Has sections: 'Population and migration'; 'Agriculture'; 'Industry' [pp70-104]; 'Trade and finance' [pp105-39]; 'Working conditions'; 'Poor Law'; 'Labour movements'; 'Living conditions'; 'Transport' [pp246-80]. 'Industry' has subsections: textiles - linen / textiles - cotton / heavy industries / industrial depression between the wars. 'Trade and finance' has subsections: 'Union and trade' / 'commercial banks / savings banks. Transport has subsections: roads / waterways / railways