The scottish path to capitalist agriculture 2: The capitalist offensive (1747-1815)

Journal of Agrarian Change

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 411-460

  Davidson, Neil ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bourgeois revolution; Capitalism; Feudalism; Highland Clearances; Improvement; Scotland; Uneven and combined development

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; FEUDALISM; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; LAND RIGHTS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 3142677371     PISSN: 14710358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0366.2004.00087.x     Document Type: Article

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