Between Clan and Crown

Between Clan and Crown PDF Author: Lee A. Farrow
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874138870
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 688

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"Farrow's conclusions are based on extensive research in published and archival primary sources, including inheritance and land disputes overseen by the Imperial Russian Senate, as well as confiscation records from the Chancellery of Confiscations, and are an important contribution to the ongoing debate about the nature of Russian aristocracy."--Jacket.

Between Clan and Crown

Between Clan and Crown PDF Author: Lee A. Farrow
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874138870
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 688

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"Farrow's conclusions are based on extensive research in published and archival primary sources, including inheritance and land disputes overseen by the Imperial Russian Senate, as well as confiscation records from the Chancellery of Confiscations, and are an important contribution to the ongoing debate about the nature of Russian aristocracy."--Jacket.

Clan and Crown

Clan and Crown PDF Author: John Tracy St. (author)
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ISBN: 9781311556769
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Janissaries: Clan and Crown

Janissaries: Clan and Crown PDF Author: Jerry Pournelle
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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From Chiefs to Landlords

From Chiefs to Landlords PDF Author: Robert A. Dodgshon
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474467784
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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This new approach to Highland history before the Clearances draws attention to little-studied yet important economic and social processes within the Highland clan system and argues that we should consider the problems of traditional Highland society, economy and environment together. Exploring how the different aspects of the clan system - chiefs and kinsmen, landlords and tenants, farming systems, production strategies and marketing - changed between the 16th-18th centuries, it shows how the character and ideology of clans and chiefdoms are inextricably part of the twin problems of socio-political control and food production. Shifting the emphasis away from depictions of Highland society as lawless and disorganised, this is a welcome antidote to the many romanticised views of pre-Clearance society. Prize Winner! Honorable Mention - Frank Watson Scottish History Prize 1999

Clan, King and Covenant

Clan, King and Covenant PDF Author: John L Roberts
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474472052
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Clan, King and Covenant explores the turbulent history of the Highlands during the seventeenth century. The signing of the National Covenant in 1638 first challenged the powers of Charles I in Scotland, but it was only when Alisdair MacDonald joined Montrose in raising the Royalist clans that the country erupted into civil war. Central to the conflict was the ancient enmity between the MacDonalds and the Campbells, Earls of Argyll, as clan Donald attempted to reclaim their ancestral lands in Argyll. There followed a whirlwind year of spectacular victories for Montrose in the name of the King as the Highland clans emerged upon the national stage, before his campaign subsided into eventual defeat. However it was only after the Restoration of Charles II that a bitter and protracted struggle broke out between Church and Crown, after Bishops were reappointed to the national Church. Political and religious tensions mounted with the acession of James VII of Scotland (James II of England) as a Catholic king ruling over a predominantly Presbyterian people. It reached a climax in the outbreak of the Highland War, when Viscount Dundee won a devastating victory at Killiecrankie on behalf of James VII over the Presbyterian forces of Lowland Scotland, but at the cost of his own life. Subsequently the Crown imposed an uneasy peace upon the Highlands, after the cold-blooded plotting of 'murder under trust' culminated in the Glencoe Massacre. Condoned by William of Orange, few events in the blood-stained history of the Highland clans have quite the dreadful resonance of this act, carried out cynically as a matter of public policy.Also available by the same author: Lost Kingdoms and Feuds, Forays and Rebellions (both Edinburgh University Press)

Historical notices of the clan Gregor, collected and arranged by D. Gregory

Historical notices of the clan Gregor, collected and arranged by D. Gregory PDF Author: Donald Gregory
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Languages : en
Pages : 74

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A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans

A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans PDF Author: James Browne
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Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Clanship, Commerce and the House of Stuart, 1603-1788

Clanship, Commerce and the House of Stuart, 1603-1788 PDF Author: Allan I. MacInnes
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788854047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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This is an appraisal of clanship both with respect to its vitality and its eventual demise, in which the author views clanship as a socio-economic, as well as a political agency, deriving its strength from personal obligations and mutual service between chiefs and gentry and their clansmen. Its demise is attributed to the throwing over of these personal obligations by the clan elite, not to legislation or central government repression. The book discusses the impact on the clans of the inevitable shift, with the passage of time, from feudalism to capitalism, regardless of the "Forty Five". It draws upon estate papers, family correspondence, financial compacts, social bonds and recorded oral tradition rather than the biased records of central government.

Clan Donald

Clan Donald PDF Author: Donald J. Macdonald
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455602339
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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This volume presents a detailed history of this Scottish noble lineage from the medieval Lords of the Isles to the mid–eighteenth century. Clan Donald is not the history of one clan, but of several important clans that descend from the old Kingdom of Macdonald. Each of these clans played its part in the history of Scotland until the fateful Battle of Culloden in 1746. Covering a period of six hundred years, the narrative begins with Somerled and the foundation of the Lordship of the Isles. It traces the narrative through the downfall of the Lordship in 1493 and the various branches that arose thereafter. The book then culminates in an overview of how the Celtic and Roman Churches were influenced by Clan Donald. Based on the original, three-volume edition of Clan Donald—first published between 1896 and 1904—this all-encompassing reference book is essential for members of the Clan as well as students of the Western Highlands and Isles.

Celtic Monthly

Celtic Monthly PDF Author:
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Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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