Custom, Commerce and Lord Meadowbank: the Management of the Meal Market in Urban Scotland, c.1740–c.1820

Whatley, Christopher A.

doi:10.3366/jshs.2012.0033

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“…Cooke shows how these groups played a vital role in the city's continued economic development in the mid‐ to late nineteenth century, through both employment of their capital and utilization of their domestic and international networks. Also focusing on a Scottish theme is Whatley's article on the management and regulation of the urban meal market which argues that urbanization in Scotland in the late eighteenth century was managed relatively smoothly by local town councils, particularly in the way they controlled local markets. Maw et al. focus their attention on the influence of the development of canals on the location of mills in early nineteenth‐century Manchester, even as steam engines replaced water power within industry.…”

Section: –1850mentioning

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Review of periodical literature published in 2012

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Davis

Paul

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The Economic History Review

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Section: –1850mentioning

confidence: 99%

Review of periodical literature published in 2012

Costen

Davis

Paul

et al. 2014

The Economic History Review

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List of publications on the economic and social history ofGreatBritain andIreland published in 2012

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Raymond²,

Wright³

2013

The Economic History Review

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Policing Marriage under the ‘Tree of Despotism’: The Struggle over Marital, Civic and Police-Judicial Relations in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh

Barrie¹

2016

The Scottish Historical Review

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In 1850 an attempt by the Conservative MP for Bute, James Wortley, to legalise marriage with a deceased wife's sister kick-started an unprecedented and remarkable chain of events in Edinburgh. Over a few short weeks, Scotland's capital became embroiled in a power struggle that would bring Presbyterian churchmen together in a manner that few issues had done since the Disruption, involve the city's religious, civic and judicial elites in a high-profile disturbance and trial, and lay the foundations for a landmark judicial ruling. Although touching upon a number of important historiographical themes relating to marriage, religion, Scottish national identity, and church-state relations, what binds the story together was not only the personalities involved, the events that unfolded, or the perceived conceptual links between them, but male anxieties over control, governance, and masculine honour. In reconstructing this narrative, the essay argues that this was a controversy not just about marriage law, or the perceived abuse of police and judicial power, but of male authority—within the household, the church, and municipal office. It sheds new light on the important role that Scottish values, beliefs, and traditions played in the marriage with a deceased wife's sister debate, and furthers historiographical understanding on police-judicial relations by exploring the intricacies of mid-nineteenth-century Scottish governance.

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Custom, Commerce and Lord Meadowbank: the Management of the Meal Market in Urban Scotland, c.1740–c.1820

Cited by 3 publications

References 22 publications

Review of periodical literature published in 2012

Review of periodical literature published in 2012

List of publications on the economic and social history ofGreatBritain andIreland published in 2012

Policing Marriage under the ‘Tree of Despotism’: The Struggle over Marital, Civic and Police-Judicial Relations in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh

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