This book, first published in 1988, is a study of the development of accounting in eighteenth century Scotland. The investigation is organised around a survey o

Women are shown to have played an important and very visible role in society at the time. Fashionable "polite" society of this period emphasised mixed-gender so

The eighteenth century looms large in the Scottish imagination. It is a century that saw the doubling of the population, rapid urbanisation, industrial growth,

In Mastering the Niger, David Lambert recalls Scotsman James MacQueen (1778–1870) and his publication of A New Map of Africa in 1841 to show that Atlantic sla

Volume two of the Handbooks of Management Accounting Research consists of two groups of chapters. The first draw together research that has focussed on particul