Prices, Food and Wages in Scotland, 1550-1780

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

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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"

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Business Business & Finance Business & Investing Economic History Economics England Europe History Industries & Professions Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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