Scottish Trade on the Eve of the Union, 1660-1707
Details:
- Author(s) Smout, T C
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1963
- Pages 320pp; illus
- Publisher Oliver & Boyd
- Place Published Edinburgh
Topics:
- Name Geopolitical event, natural disaster, etc, impact on business inc end of empire, war, disease, catastrophe, etc, exc industrial conflict
- Name Finance of production & trade
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Scholarly work dealing with, inter alia, the trading background, notably Scottish foreign trade and shipping, to the establishment of the Union. Organised in two parts: 1] the 'mechanisms' of the trade', notably merchants and mariners, and 2] the 'pattern of the trade', notably imports, exports, trading centres, etc. An introductory chapter covers 'Scotland and her economy'. Otherwise chapters include: Part 1] 'The King's customs and the smugglers'; 'Shipping and navigation'; 'Scottish traders at home'; 'Scottish traders abroad'; 'The uses of money' [external payments and internal payments]; Part 2] 'The wealth and trade of the Scottish burghs' - Edinburgh, Leith, Ayr, Aberdeen, etc; 'Imports - Eastland and Atlantic'; 'Imports - Holland and England'; 'The changing pattern of exports - trade revival and decay, 1660-1707'; 'The background to Union'