National Myths
Rosalind Mitchison, 20 November 1986
Domesday Economy: A New Approach to Anglo-Norman History
by John McDonald and G.D. Snooks.
Oxford, 240 pp., £27.50, July 1986,0 19 828524 8 Show More
by John McDonald and G.D. Snooks.
Oxford, 240 pp., £27.50, July 1986,
Scottish Literacy and the Scottish Identity: Illiteracy and Society in Scotland
by R.A. Houston.
Cambridge, 352 pp., £27.50, December 1985,0 521 26598 3 Show More
by R.A. Houston.
Cambridge, 352 pp., £27.50, December 1985,
A History of the Highland Clearances. Vol. II: Emigration, Protest, Reasons
by Eric Richards.
Croom Helm, 543 pp., £25, October 1985,0 7099 2259 0 Show More
by Eric Richards.
Croom Helm, 543 pp., £25, October 1985,
“... for several generations against trying to use Domesday Book for economic analysis. McDonald and Snooks have set out to apply modern technology and well-established statistical techniques to decide whether it can be so used. Working on two counties only, and assuming that the practical purpose of the extensive enterprise of its compilation was to make sure ... ”
