The countryside: infield and outfield and run-rig system; cattle trade; implements; by-employments; the village and the plough team; tacksmen, tenants and sub-tenants. The agrarian revolution - the improving movement: legislation and enclosure - early improvements; progress of improving movement; the new agricultural implements; consolidation of holdings and spread of lease system. The agrarian revolution - the new order in agriculture: improvements and the market; the cattle trade; extension of sheep farming - the clearances and emigration; the new countryside. The linen industry - state encouragement and the domestic system: parliament and the linen trade - the Board of Trustees; progress of the industry - bounties and export, linen industry in the Highlands, fine linen trade; organization of the industry in eighteenth century. The linen industry - the rise of the factory system: competition of cotton - spinning machinery, progress of power spinning, employment of jute; movement to end Board of Trustees powers of inspection; hand-loom weaving - the introduction of power-loom. The cotton industry - rise of cotton industry, inventions - inventions, early mills, captains of industry, domestic and factory systems, war period; transition from linen to cotton - the hand-loom weaver and the "manufacturer", invention of power-loom, its slow progress, triumph of factory system; products of Scottish cotton industry - subsidiary trades; raw material - markets, causes of decline. Iron and coal - from charcoal to pit coal: decline and dispersion of English iron industry - charcoal furnaces in Highlands, the Darbys and employment of coal in the furnaces; founding of Carron Iron Works - gun casting, nail trade, large-scale production; inventions of Watt and Cort - industrial concentration; expansion of iron industry - the malleable iron works and new furnaces; coal-mining - Monkland Canal and Lanarkshire coal-field, the steam engine and mining. Iron and coal - consolidation and expansion: war and activity in iron industry - slow progress in Scotland; market for pig-iron - foundries and casting, industrial depression; discovery of Blackland Ironstone and invention of hot-blast; new era in history of iron industry - opening of Lanarkshire by railway, period of boom, large-scale production, malleable iron trade, steel industry; increase in coal-mining - demands of industry, export of coal. Combination in the coal and iron industries: West of Scotland coal trade - combine of 1790, competition, combine of 1813; negotiations among iron-masters - meetings of pig-iron trade. Engineering and shipbuilding: origin of engineering craft - machine tools; extension of steam power, sugar machinery, textile machinery, locomotive engineering; shipbuilding on the Clyde - marine engineering; iron shipbuilding, screw versus paddle, clippers and Aberdeen, improvements in engines and boilers, some Clyde firms. (Part contents).
