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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Scottish Economy in Historical Context -- Part I: 1700-1914 -- 1 The Modern Economy: Scotland and the Act of Union -- 2 Industrialisation -- 3 The Transformation of Agriculture: Cultivation and Clearance -- 4 The Establishment of the Financial Network -- 5 Economic Progress: Wealth and Poverty -- Part II: 1914-2000 -- 6 The Regional Economies of Scotland -- 7 The Modernisation of Scottish Agriculture -- 8 Unbalanced Growth: Prosperity and Deprivation -- 9 The Managed Economy: Scotland, 1919-2000 -- Conclusion: The Legacy of the Past and Future Prospects -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- The Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction. Scotland and Transatlantic Slavery -- 1. Lost to History -- 2. Yonder Awa: Slavery and Distancing Strategies in Scottish Literature -- 3. Early Scottish Sugar Planters in the Leeward Islands, c. 1660-1740 -- 4. The Scots Penetration of the Jamaican Plantation Business -- 5. 'The habits of these creatures in clinging one to the other': Enslaved Africans, Scots and the Plantations of Guyana -- 6. The Great Glasgow West India House of John Campbell, senior, & Co. -- 7. Scottish Surgeons in the Liverpool Slave Trade in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries -- 8. Scotland and Colonial Slave Ownership: The Evidence of the Slave Compensation Records -- 9. 'The Upas Tree, beneath whose pestiferous shade all intellect languishes and all virtue dies': Scottish Public Perceptions of the Slave Trade and Slavery, 1756-1833 -- 10. 'The most unbending Conservative in Britain': Archibald Alison and Pro-slavery Discourse -- 11. Did Slavery make Scotia Great? A Question Revisited -- Conclusion: History, Scotland and Slavery -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Towards a Theory of Divergent Development -- 3. Cousins Divided? Development in and of Political Institutions in Scotland and Norway since 1814 -- 4. Agrarian Change in Scotland and Norway: Agricultural Production, Structures, Politics and Policies since 1800 -- 5. The Evolution of Local Government and Governance in Scotland and Norway -- 6. The Development of Industry and North Sea Oil in Scotland and Norway -- 7. Reflections on the Making of Norway -- 8. Money and Banking in Scotland and Norway -- 9. Religion in Scotland and Norway -- 10. The Nordic Welfare Model in Norway and Scotland -- 11. Access, Nature, Culture and the Great Outdoors - Norway and Scotland -- 12. Education in Norway and Scotland: Developing and Re-forming the Systems -- 13. Norway and the United Kingdom/Scotland after the Second World War -- 14. Conclusions -- The Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index