TY - BOOK ID - 6336904 TI - Scottish society 1500-1800 AU - Whyte, Ian D. AU - Houston, Robert Allan PY - 1989 SN - 0521325226 0521891671 0511660251 9780521325226 9780511660252 9780521891677 PB - Cambridge: Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Scotland KW - Social life and customs KW - History KW - Social conditions KW - History of the United Kingdom and Ireland KW - anno 1500-1799 KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Scotland - Social life and customs KW - Scotland - History - 16th century KW - Scotland - History - 17th century KW - Scotland - History - 18th century KW - Scotland - Social conditions KW - Social life and customs. KW - Social conditions. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6336904 AB - In recent years scholars have begun to ask new and exciting questions about the lives of the ordinary people of Scotland in the centuries before the Industrial Revolution. The essays in this volume, written by some of the foremost figures in Scottish social history, cover many significant themes in pre-industrial Scottish society: poverty, diet, social organisation and change, urban development, population mobility and the status of women. The editors have provided an introductory overview of Scottish society analysing such topics as population, social structure, law and order, religion and popular culture. The approach throughout is a comparative one aimed at highlighting both the similarities and the distinctive features of Scottish society when compared with those of the rest of the British Isles and continental Europe. Two concluding chapters provide insights from specialists on Irish and English society into how Scotland fits into the context of 'British' social development. ER -