Prices, Food and Wages in Scotland, 1550-1780

by T.C. Smout and A.J.S. Gibson

Book Overview

This is the first study of Scottish price history to be published, and a major contribution to the economic and social history of early modern and pre-industrial Britain. Using the remarkable series of fiars prices for grains and other contemporary sources, Gibson and Smout focus, in particular, on the prices of grain, meal and animal products, and assess how Scots laborers could survive in an economy that could pay only very low money wages. Their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521346568
• ISBN13: 9780521346566
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.2" x 10.0"