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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 Alasdair 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."--Jacket.

Clans --- Clans and clan system --- Sibs --- Families --- Kinship --- Tribes --- History. --- Highlands (Scotland)

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Clans --- History. --- -Clans and clan system --- Sibs --- Families --- Kinship --- Tribes --- History --- Claudii family --- Julii family --- Julii family. --- Claudii family. --- Clans - Rome - History --- -History --- Histoire

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This book presents a detailed study which focuses upon the Hucpoldings, an elite group in Carolingian and post-Carolingian Italy. Though the Hucpoldings have not received extensive treatment in previous Anglophone scholarship, they are a key clan in this period. Manarini's ground-breaking study uses this kinship group to highlight and pinpoint the dramatic geopolitical changes in the kingdom of Italy across three crucial centuries. The research deals with the reconstruction of the political events of every identifiable member of the kinship, as well as the inquiry into their patrimony and their networks of relations and patronage throughout the kingdom of Italy. Finally, it examines the particular elements of the group, from which emerges a clearer picture of the nature of their power, their memory strategies and the shared perceptions and self-awareness among the group members.

Clans --- Geopolitics --- HISTORY / Europe / Italy. --- History. --- Italy --- History --- Hucpoldings, kinship, networks, aristocracy, power. --- World politics --- Clans and clan system --- Sibs --- Families --- Kinship --- Tribes --- Holy Roman Empire --- Naples (Kingdom)

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The first edition of this book 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. This second edition addresses the questions of the first in more detail.

Aufstand. --- Clans --- Clans. --- Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746. --- Jacobites. --- Jakobieten (religie). --- Jakobitische Rebellion --- POLITICAL SCIENCE --- History --- Political Freedom. --- Jakobiten (Partei). --- Jacobite Rebellion (1745-1746). --- 1700-1799. --- Scotland --- Scotland. --- Clans and clan system --- Sibs --- Families --- Kinship --- Tribes

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In this groundbreaking work, social anthropologist David Sneath aggressively dispels the myths surrounding the history of steppe societies and proposes a new understanding of the nature and formation of the state. Since the colonial era, representations of Inner Asia have been dominated by images of fierce nomads organized into clans and tribes-but as Sneath reveals, these representations have no sound basis in historical fact. Rather, they are the product of nineteenth-century evolutionist social theory, which saw kinship as the organizing principle in a nonstate society.Sneath argues that aristocratic power and statelike processes of administration were the true organizers of life on the steppe. Rethinking the traditional dichotomy between state and nonstate societies, Sneath conceives of a "headless state" in which a configuration of statelike power was formed by the horizontal relations among power holders and was reproduced with or without an overarching ruler or central "head." In other words, almost all of the operations of state power existed at the local level, virtually independent of central bureaucratic authority. Sneath's research gives rise to an alternative picture of steppe life in which aristocrats determined the size, scale, and degree of centralization of political power. His history of the region shows no clear distinction between a highly centralized, stratified "state" society and an egalitarian, kin-based "tribal" society. Drawing on his extensive anthropological fieldwork in the region, Sneath persuasively challenges the legitimacy of the tribal model, which continues to distort scholarship on the history of Inner Asia.

Tribal government --- Clans --- Power (Social sciences) --- Aristocracy (Political science) --- Gouvernement tribal --- Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) --- Aristocratie (Science politique) --- Asia, Central --- Asie centrale --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Political science --- Tribes --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Clans and clan system --- Sibs --- Families --- Kinship --- Aristocracy