Fishing Industries of Scotland, 1790-1914. A study in regional adaption
Details:
- Author(s) Gray, Malcolm
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1978
- Pages 230pp; illus
- Publisher Oxford University Press for Aberdeen University
- Place Published Oxford
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- Name Worker / employee housing & communities
- Name Workers / employee & work, women & men
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly work covering 19th century. Deals with the industry's expansion and geographical distinctiveness and the factors determining this. Also deals with how land-based activities impinged on sea-based ones and how fishing touched on local communities. Chapters include: 'A traditional fishing economy - the east coast in the 1790s'; 'The rise of herring fishing - Caithness, 1790-1815'; 'The widening sphere of herring fishing, 1815-1835'; 'Herring fishing dominant - the driving forces, 1835-1884'; 'The east coast fisherman, 1835-84'; 'Crofting and fishing - the west coast, 1790-1884'; 'Crofting and fishing - the Northern Isles, 1800-1880'; 'Herring at its peak - the older communities, 1884-1914'; 'The new community, 1880-1914'; 'The crofting communities in the new era'