Overview
Scotland's Populations is a coherent and comprehensive description and analysis of the most recent 170 years of Scottish population history. With its coverage of both national and local themes, set in the context of changes in Scottish economy and society, this study is an essential and definitive source for anyone teaching or writing on modern Scottish history, sociology, or geography. Michael Anderson explores subjects such as population growth and decline, rural settlement and depopulation, and migration and emigration. It sets current and recent population changes in their long-term context, exploring how the legacies of past demographic change have combined with a history of weak industrial investment, employment insecurity, deprivation, and poor living conditions to produce the population profiles and changes of Scotland today. While focussing on Scottish data, Anderson engages in a rigorous treatment of comparisons of Scotland with its neighbours in the British Isles and elsewhere in Europe, which ensures that this is more than a one-country study.
Full Product Details
Author: Michael Anderson (Honorary Professorial Fellow, Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Edinburgh) ,
Corinne Roughley (Fellow, Fellow, Hughes Hall, Cambridge)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 3.20cm
, Length: 24.10cm
Weight: 0.864kg
ISBN: 9780198805830
ISBN 10: 0198805837
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 08 March 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
an important book ... Given the comprehensiveness and thoroughness of its analysis, it is certain that Anderson's book will become the standard work in its field ... It is impossible not to be impressed by the comprehensiveness of Anderson's work. * Scottish Review * It is a masterly demonstration of what can be achieved when writing the population history of a nation with a keen eye for the local and regional perspective * Local Population Studies * 'A magisterial study of Scotland's population over the past one and a half centuries that by identifying and exploring recent and current demographic trends is highly relevant for our understanding of the main demographic challenges that face Scotland today. * Professor Chris Whattley, University of Dundee *
an important book ... Given the comprehensiveness and thoroughness of its analysis, it is certain that Anderson's book will become the standard work in its field ... It is impossible not to be impressed by the comprehensiveness of Anderson's work. * Scottish Review * It is a masterly demonstration of what can be achieved when writing the population history of a nation with a keen eye for the local and regional perspective * Local Population Studies * 'A magisterial study of Scotland's population over the past one and a half centuries that by identifying and exploring recent and current demographic trends is highly relevant for our understanding of the main demographic challenges that face Scotland today. * Professor Chris Whattley, University of Dundee * [a] wonderfully informative and wide-ranging book * Simon Szreter, Population Studies * This book presents scholarship of the highest quality, and a new standard point of reference has been achieved. * Graeme Morton, Scotia: Interdisciplinary Journal of Scottish Studies * MacEachern's work will be useful for specialists in a variety of fields. * Publisher's Weekly *
an important book ... Given the comprehensiveness and thoroughness of its analysis, it is certain that Anderson's book will become the standard work in its field ... It is impossible not to be impressed by the comprehensiveness of Anderson's work. * Scottish Review *
an important book ... Given the comprehensiveness and thoroughness of its analysis, it is certain that Anderson's book will become the standard work in its field ... It is impossible not to be impressed by the comprehensiveness of Anderson's work. * Scottish Review * It is a masterly demonstration of what can be achieved when writing the population history of a nation with a keen eye for the local and regional perspective * Local Population Studies * 'A magisterial study of Scotland's population over the past one and a half centuries that by identifying and exploring recent and current demographic trends is highly relevant for our understanding of the main demographic challenges that face Scotland today. * Professor Chris Whattley, University of Dundee * [a] wonderfully informative and wide-ranging book * Simon Szreter, Population Studies * This book presents scholarship of the highest quality, and a new standard point of reference has been achieved. * Graeme Morton, Scotia: Interdisciplinary Journal of Scottish Studies * MacEachern's work will be useful for specialists in a variety of fields. * Publisher's Weekly * Anderson's book is a fine example, able to stand alongside the best national studies of European demography, by the likes of Livi Bacci or Wrigley and Schofield; in closely scrutinising the social, economic, political, and cultural context of demographic behaviour, it is superior to them. * Rab Houston, Scottish Historical Review * The breadth and depth of its content makes Michael Anderson's Scotland's Populations a rich meal of a book. * Eilidh Garrett, Continuity and Change * [a] wonderfully informative and wide-ranging book * Simon Szreter, A Journal of Demography *
Author Information
Michael Anderson worked in the University of Edinburgh for forty years, initially in Sociology until he was appointed to the Chair of Economic History in 1979. He was the University's Senior Vice-Principal from 2000 to 2007. Over the forty years he taught a wide variety of Sociology, Economic and Social History, and Social Science Research Design courses. His research interests have included historical work on the family and demography, a large-scale census enumeration book database for 1851, and studies of the social economy of the household, both in the past and, through surveys and interviews, in the 1980s and 1990s. He holds Fellowships of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He served on the Council of ESRC and chaired the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland for twelve years. Corinne Roughley is Fellow of Hughes Hall Cambridge and has wide-rangng interests in the spatial patterning of people and their activities from the Neolithic to the present.
