Of laird and tenant : a study of the social and economic geography of Shetland in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, based on the Garth and Gardie estate manuscripts

The thesis is based upon a major and hitherto almost unresearched historical manuscript source, the Gardie Papers; it assesses their usefulness to the historian and the historical geographer, compares the evidence from this source with that from the extensive published literature on the Shetland Isl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wills, Jonathan Witney G.
Other Authors: Stanley, Michael
Published: University of Edinburgh 1975
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.383533