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A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1600 to 1800.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foyster, Elizabeth A., 1968-
- Series:
- A history of everyday life in Scotland A history of everyday life in Scotland, 1600 to 1800.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scotland--History--17th century.
- Scotland.
- Scotland--History--18th century.
- Scotland--17th century--Social conditions.
- Scotland--Social life and customs--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores the ordinary daily routines, behaviours, experiences and beliefs of the Scottish people during a period of immense political, social and economic change. It underlines the importance of the church in post-Reformation Scottish society, but also highlights aspects of everyday life that remained the same, or similar, notwithstanding the efforts of the kirk, employers and the state to alter behaviours and attitudes.Drawing upon and interrogating a range of primary sources, the authors create a richly coloured, highly-nuanced picture of the lives of ordinary Scots from birth thro
- Contents:
- Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Acknowledgements; Series Editors' Foreword; Introduction Recovering the Everyday in Early Modern Scotland; Chapter 1 Everyday Structures, Rhythms and Spaces of the Scottish Countryside; Chapter 2 Improvement and Modernisation in Everyday Enlightenment Scotland; Chapter 3 Death, Birth and Marriage in Early Modern Scotland; Chapter 4 Illness, Disease and Pain; Chapter 5 Necessities: Food and Clothing in the Long Eighteenth Century; Chapter 6 Communicating; Chapter 7 Order and Disorder; Chapter 8 Sensory Experiences: Smells, Sounds and Touch
- Chapter 9 Beliefs, Religions, Fears and NeurosesChapter 10 Movement, Transport and Travel; Chapter 11 Work, Time and Pastimes; Annotated Bibliography; Notes on the Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612620034
- 9781282620032
- 1282620037
- 9780748629060
- 0748629068
- OCLC:
- 638860054
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