Table of Contents

List of tables; List of abbreviations; Introduction: Scottish society in perspective R. A. Houston and I. D. Whyte; 1. Population mobility in early modern Scotland I. D. Whyte; 2. Scottish food and Scottish history, 1500–1800 A. Gibson and T. C. Smout; 3. Continuity and change in urban society, 1500–1700 M. Lynch; 4. Women in the economy and society of Scotland, 1500–1800 R. A. Houston; 5. Social responses to agrarian 'improvement': the Highland and Lowland clearances in Scotland T. M. Devine; 6. 'Pretense of blude' and 'place of their dwelling': the nature of highland clans, 1500–1745 R. A. Dodgshon; 7. North and south: the development of the gulf in Poor Law practice Rosalind Mitchison; 8. Scotland and Ireland, 1600–1800: their role in the evolution of British society L. M. Cullen; 9. Kindred adjoining kingdoms: an English perspective on the social and economic history of early modern Scotland K. E. Wrightson; Bibliography of printed sources and secondary works; Index.

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The volume covers many of the most significant themes in pre-industrial Scottish society.