Scottish Literacy and the Scottish Identity - Illiteracy and Society in Scotland and Northern England, 1600-1800

Zusammenfassung A campaign promoted by church and state between 1560 and 1696 is said to have produced in Scotland the most literate population in the early modern world. This book sets out to test this belief by comparing the ability to read and write in Scotland with northern England in particular and with Europe and North America in general. Inhaltsverzeichnis Tables; Abbreviations; Preface; 1. The ideal of Scottish literacy; 2. Structures and trends in illiteracy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; 3. Illiteracy in mid seventeenth-century Britain; 4. The reasons for literacy; 5. Measures of literacy; 6. Oral culture and literate culture; 7. The politics of literacy; 8. Literacy and the Scottish identity; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: R. A. Houston, R.a. Houston
• Assisted by: Jan de Vries (Editor), Richard Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.06.2002
• EAN: 9780521890885
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89088-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Populatio
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History