Author: Audrey Cunningham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107456355
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 601
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Originally published in 1932, this book provides a detailed account of the Scottish Highland clan system and its relationship with the development of Jacobitism. Information is provided on different clans and their relationship with various political entities and structures. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Scottish history and the clan system.
Author: Alistair Moffat
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0500290849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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“A brisk and accessible guide to a thousand years of reiving and rivalry in the Highlands.” —The Scotsman The story of the Highland clans of Scotland is famous, the names celebrated, and the deeds heroic. Having clung to ancient traditions of family, loyalty, and valor for centuries, the clans met the beginning of their end at the fateful Battle of Culloden in 1746. Alistair Moffat traces the history of the clans from their Celtic origins to the coming of the Romans; from Somerled the Viking to Robert the Bruce; from the great battles of Bannockburn and Flodden to Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite Risings; and from the Clearances to the present day. Moffat is an adept guide to the world of the clans, a world dominated by lineage, land, and community. These are stories of great leaders and famous battles, and of an extraordinary people, shaped by the unique traditions and landscape of the Scottish Highlands. It’s a story too about the pain of leaving, with the great emigrations to the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand that began after Culloden. Complete with a clan map and an alphabetical list of the clans of the Scottish Highlands, this is a must for anyone interested in the history of Scotland.
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)
Author: Alastair Campbell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Author: Lachlan MacLean
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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History and genealogy of the Maclean family in Scotland and the nearby islands between 1263 and 1838. The history includes the longlived feud between the Campbells and the Macleans, and the shorter feud between the Macdonalds and the Macleans. From the 1680s forward, many of the Macleans served in the British army. The Maclean family were part of the Scottish nobility, known as the House of Duart.
Author: Frank Adam
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806304480
Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Given by Eugene Edge III.
Author: Pittock Murray Pittock
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474471684
Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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The Myth of the Jacobite Clans was first published in 1995: a revolutionary book, it argued that British history had long sought to caricature Jacobitism rather than to understand it, and that the Jacobite Risings drew on extensive Lowland support and had a national quality within Scotland. The Times Higher Education Supplement hailed its author's 'formidable talents' and the book and its ideas fuelled discussions in The Economist and Scotland on Sunday, on Radio Scotland and elsewhere. The argument of the book has been widely accepted, although it is still ignored by media and heritage representations which seek to depoliticise the Rising of 1745.Now entirely rewritten with extensive new primary research, this new expanded second edition addresses the questions of the first in more detail, examining the systematic misrepresentation of Jacobitism, the impressive size of the Jacobite armies, their training and organization and the Jacobite goal of dissolving the Union, and bringing to life the ordinary Scots who formed the core of Jacobite support in the ill-fated Rising of 1745. Now, more than ever, The Myth of the Jacobite Clans sounds the call for an end to the dismissive sneers and pointless romanticisation which have dogged the history of the subject in Scotland for 200 years.
Author: Sir John Scott Keltie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
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Author: Henry Jenner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382838028
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
