{"product_id":"prices-food-and-wages-in-scotland-1550-1780-paperback-9780521037808","title":"Prices, Food and Wages in Scotland, 1550–1780 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521037808","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePrices, Food and Wages in Scotland, 1550–1780\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 1994 book is a major work in early modern and pre-industrial economic and social history.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eA. J. S. Gibson (Author), T. C. Smout (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521037808, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 19 July 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e416 pages, 40 b\/w illus.  110 tables\u003cbr\u003e24.3 x 16.9 x 2 cm, 0.675 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… an excellent statistical survey … represents a major advance in our understanding of early modern and eighteenth century Scotland.' Economic History Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 1994 book is a study of Scottish price history 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 artisans and labourers could survive in an economy that could pay only very low money wages. The authors show how the Scottish people experienced fluctuations in welfare both in the longer term from generation to generation, and within a given life-cycle. The Scottish records on prices and wages are a unique historical resource, to which Gibson and Smout have applied both traditional and quantitative historical techniques. In so doing they produced a powerful contribution to the perennial debate on the standard of living of ordinary people prior to the onset of industrialization.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of figures\u003cbr\u003e List of tables\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e A note on Scottish and English money\u003cbr\u003e Map of Scottish counties and principal burghs\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. The system of burgh price regulation\u003cbr\u003e 3. The system of county fiars\u003cbr\u003e 4. Press reports of monthly market prices\u003cbr\u003e 5. Trends and fluctuations in grain price movements\u003cbr\u003e 6. The price of animals and animal products\u003cbr\u003e 7. Food\u003cbr\u003e 8. Wages in money and kind\u003cbr\u003e 9. Real wages\u003cbr\u003e Appendix I: Scottish weights and measures, 1580–1780\u003cbr\u003e Appendix II: accessing the data\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Person index\u003cbr\u003e Place index\u003cbr\u003e Subject index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Economic history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Economic history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Economic%20history%20%5BKCZ%5D%22\"\u003eKCZ\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004612038936,"sku":"9780521037808","price":35.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521037808i_b8c4e779-9bd4-412b-8651-eae1fac8efad.jpg?v=1694968443","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/prices-food-and-wages-in-scotland-1550-1780-paperback-9780521037808","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}