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From Chiefs to Landlords : Social and Economic Change in the Western Highlands & Islands / Robert Dodgshon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748610341
  • 9781474467780
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 941.15 21
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Western Highlands and Islands in Context, c.1493-1820 -- 2. Chiefs, Kinsmen and Territories -- 3. The Nature of the Chiefly Economy -- 4. Patterns of Chiefly Display and Behaviour -- 5. The Transformation of Chiefs into Landlords -- 6. The Farming Township and the Institutional Basis of Farming -- 7. The Township Economy -- 8. The Farming Township: Its Strategies and Constraints -- 9. The Western Highlands and Islands on the Eve of the Clearances -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Western Highlands and Islands in Context, c.1493-1820 -- 2. Chiefs, Kinsmen and Territories -- 3. The Nature of the Chiefly Economy -- 4. Patterns of Chiefly Display and Behaviour -- 5. The Transformation of Chiefs into Landlords -- 6. The Farming Township and the Institutional Basis of Farming -- 7. The Township Economy -- 8. The Farming Township: Its Strategies and Constraints -- 9. The Western Highlands and Islands on the Eve of the Clearances -- Bibliography -- Index

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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

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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