'Industry and investment in the eighteenth century Highlands. The York Buildings Company of London' in A J G Cummings & T M Devine (eds), Industry, Business and Society in Scotland since 1700. Essays presented to Professor John Butt
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- Author(s) Cummings, A J G
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1994
- Pages pp24-42
- Publisher John Donald Publishers
- Place Published Edinburgh
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'The object of this essay is to examine attempts by English capitalists to exploit the natural resources of the Highland region of Scotland, particularly minerals and timber, in the 1720s and 1730s' in particular dealing with the investments of the York Buildings Co, the reasons for these and their comparative lack of success