Famine in Scotland - the 'Ill Years' of the 1690s / / Karen Cullen.
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748638871);This book examines the climatic and economic origins of the last national famine to occur in Scotland, the nature and extent of the crisis which ensued, and what the impact of the famine was upon the population in demographic, economic and socia...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Scottish Historical Review Monographs : SHRM
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 15 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Abbreviations
- Glossary of Terms
- Acknowledgements
- County Map of Scotland
- Introduction
- Chapter one. Scotland’s Seven Ill Years: Contexts and Debates
- Chapter two. Climate, Weather and Agriculture: The Making of a Famine
- Chapter three. There Arose a Dearth – The Grain Market in Crisis
- Chapter four. Providing for the Destitute
- Chapter five. Famine: The Demographic Disaster
- Chapter six. Fleeing the Famine: Migration and Emigration
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Poor Assessment
- Bibliography
- Index