First Published in 2005. Economic History has been briefly defined as the study of material progress. Economic History deals primarily with the material side of human progress, but it is not therefore a materialistic study.
Introduction
BOOK 1: FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE ELEVENTH CENTURY
1. The prehistoric age
2. The Roman occupation
3. The Anglo-Saxon period
BOOK II: FROM THE ELEVENTH CENTURY TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
4. Feudalism in its economic aspect
5. The medieval manor
6. The decay of the Villeinage
7. The agrarian revolution of the sixteenth century
8. Commerce and towns
9. Industry and craft gilds
10. Economic opinion in the middle ages
11. Money, moneylending and public finance
12. The state and economic regulation
13. The economic development of Scotland (1) the Land
14. The economic development of Scotland (2) trade and industry
15. Medieval Wales and Ireland
BOOK III: FROM THE SIXTEENTH TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
16. Commercial expansion
17. The mercantile system
18. Agricultural and industrial developments
19. Money, banking and public finance
20. Scotland and the two unions
21. Ireland in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
BOOK IV: FROM THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT DAY
22. The Industrial Revolution
23. Consequences of industrialism
24. The agrarain revolution
25. The revolution in transport
26. The revolution in commerce
27. The rise and decline of free trade
28. Banking, currency and public finance
29. Lasissez-faire and socialism
30. Social legislation
31. Social movements
32. The post-war position
Biography
Arthur Birnie LECTURER IN ECONOMIC HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH