Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-213) and index.
Contents
Scotland's seven ill years : contexts and debates -- Climate, weather and agriculture : the making of a famine -- There arose a dearth : the grain market in crisis -- Providing for the destitute -- Famine : the demographic disaster -- Fleeing the famine : migration and emigration.
Summary
This book examines the climatic and economic origins of the last national famine to occur in Scotland, the nature and extent of the crisis which ensued, and what the impact of the famine was upon the population in demographic, economic and social terms.
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