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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

Land tenure --- Agrarian tenure --- Feudal tenure --- Freehold --- Land ownership --- Land question --- Landownership --- Tenure of land --- Land use, Rural --- Real property --- Land, Nationalization of --- Landowners --- Serfdom --- History. --- Highlands (Scotland) --- Highlands of Scotland (Scotland) --- Scottish Highlands (Scotland) --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions.

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Picea abies --- Seed production --- highlands --- Adaptation --- Provenance --- Photoperiodicity --- Germinability --- Growth chambers

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Picea --- forest stands --- Growth period --- Growth rate --- site factors --- highlands --- Alps --- Austria

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Pulling together what is known of eighteenth-century West Highland piping and pipers and relating this to the effects of changing social conditions on traditional Scottish Gaelic piping since the suppression of the last Jacobite rebellion, Gibson presents a new interpretation of the decline of Gaelic piping and a new view of Gaelic society prior to the Highland diaspora. Refuting widely accepted opinions that after Culloden pipes and pipers were effectively banned in Scotland by the Disarming Act (1746), Gibson reveals that traditional dance bagpiping continued at least to the mid-nineteenth century. He argues that the dramatic depopulation of the Highlands in the nineteenth century was one of the main reasons for the decline of piping.

Bagpipe --- Bagpipe music --- Biniou --- Cornemuse --- Musette (Bagpipe) --- Woodwind instruments --- History. --- History and criticism. --- 78.34.9 --- Bagpipes --- Scotland --- Highlands --- History --- Neuw-Schotland (Canada) --- History and criticism