The Industrial Revolution in Scotland

Whatley, Christopher A.

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“…Modern orthodoxy now suggests that transatlantic commerce, and the labour of enslaved people, underpinned Scottish economic transformation after c.1760 in a far more significant manner compared to England. The new orthodoxy is supported by earlier works that considered the Scottish Atlantic economy but did not centre slavery—Cooke (2009), Durie (1979), Murray (1978) and Whatley (1997, 2000).…”

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Centring transatlantic slavery in Scottish historiography

Mullen

2022

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The historiography of Scotland's connections with transatlantic slavery across the British Empire has flourished in the last 20 years, promoting wider public discussion and civic recognition. Nevertheless, the view that historians of Scotland omitted slavery from Scottish historiography remains part of popular discourse. This article adds nuance by considering the absences and eventual centring of slavery in Scottish historiography. In the 1960s, it was argued by historians that foreign trade-and by extension Atlantic slavery-had a limited effect on the economic development of 18th-century Scotland. However, studies of the Atlantic trades and merchant capital undermined that orthodoxy in the 1970s, although works of that era that addressed Scotland's Atlantic economy tended to acknowledge slavery only in tokenistic fashion, if at all. Nevertheless, whilst slavery was not centred in these works, they established the view that Atlantic commerce and merchant capital were central to Scottish economic development. In the last 25 years, slavery has been centred in Scottish historiography and earlier works have taken on new significance. Studies after 1997 have revealed the involvement of Scots with the slave trade

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Centring transatlantic slavery in Scottish historiography

Mullen

2022

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“…94 In spite of this, this area saw the fastest population growth in the country, particularly Lanarkshire, where population grew by eighty per cent between 1755 and 1801 and Renfrewshire, where it grew by a staggering 194 per cent. 95 The main explanation for this seeming discrepancy was the rapid growth of the cotton industry in the west of Scotland at the expense of fine linen manufacture, largely because prices for raw cotton coming into the Clyde almost halved between 1776 and 1780, making it competitive with linen. 96 Furthermore, the Caribbean provided both a substantial proportion of the raw material and a major export market for Scottish cotton goods in the difficult wartime conditions of the early 1800s, when trade with Europe was disrupted.…”

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An Elite Revisited: Glasgow West India Merchants, 1783–1877

Cooke¹

2012

J Scottish Historical Studies

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“…Many of the younger and more mobile members of the highland population responded by migrating in large numbers either abroad or to other parts of Scotland, taking their higher, lifecycle-related, propensity to commit acts of lethal violence with them. 67 The industrial towns also contained large numbers of Irish migrants by the second third of the nineteenth century. In 1851 only 5 per cent of Glasgow's inhabitants were born in the highlands of Scotland, but over 18 per cent of the city's population were Irish and in areas like Coatbridge more than half of the coal and iron-mining workforce were Irishborn (as were half of Dundee's linen industry work force).…”

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Urbanization, Rising Homicide Rates and the Geography of Lethal Violence in Scotland, 1800-1860

King

2011

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By showing that Scottish homicide rates more than doubled in the first sixty years of the nineteenth century, this article challenges the assumption on which much current work on pre-1950 homicide rates is based -that this was a story of uninterrupted decline. Using a detailed study of the geography of Scottish homicide, it argues that, while many historians have linked urbanization to lower homicide rates, in Scotland in this period the opposite was the case. The article then explores some of the key factors that lay behind these temporal and spatial variations in Scottish homicide rates such as regional differences in the proportion of lethally violent acts that were prosecuted, the effects of widening definitions of culpable homicide, and the impact on actual levels of lethal violence made by factors such as urban living conditions, migration patterns, and urban/ rural differences in the age profile of the general population.

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The Industrial Revolution in Scotland

Cited by 92 publications

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Centring transatlantic slavery in Scottish historiography

Centring transatlantic slavery in Scottish historiography

An Elite Revisited: Glasgow West India Merchants, 1783–1877

Urbanization, Rising Homicide Rates and the Geography of Lethal Violence in Scotland, 1800-1860

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