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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…

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When Jacobitism comes up in films and television Scotland is almost invariably to the fore, and within Scotland it is the Highland clans who feature most prominently. 

This is entirely reasonable because they were the key military asset the exiled Stuarts possessed in the British Isles, and in 1745 Charles Edward initially built the army that marched south to Derby around his primarily Gaelic-speaking clan soldiers. But there was far more to them than the dumbly loyal stereotype of the clansman that is often found in popular books on the Highlands. 

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