Lairds and improvement in the Scotland of the Enlightenment
By: edited by T.M. Devine
Contributors: Scottish Historical Conference (9th : 1978 : University of Edinburgh)
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Scotland?
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
Subjects: Agriculture; History; Congresses; Economic conditions; Gentry
Notes: "First delivered as lectures at the Ninth Scottish Historical Conference held in Grant House, University of Edinburgh in September 1978"--P. iii.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The hopes of Craighall and investment in land in the seventeenth century / John Di Folco; title: Lairds and improvement in Shetland in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Brian Smith; title: Lairds, improvement, banking and industry in eighteenth century Scotland / Alastair J. Durie; title: Robert Adam and the picturesque / A.A. Tait; title: The gentleman farmer and the annexed estates / Virginia Wills; title: State aid to industry / Annette Smith; title: Social stability in the eastern lowlands during the Agricultural Revolution / T.M. Devine.