128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color coats of arms, facsimiles (some color), maps (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Contents
Preface -- Prologue: Land and people -- Who and what were the clans -- Under which king? -- Dispersal -- Revival -- Clan tartans -- Clan societies
Summary
Liberally illustrated discussion of Scottish clans from early times to the mid-1970s. Chapters briefly deal with: the early, traditional clan system; inter-clan strife; the Jacobite uprisings; the Highland Clearances and emigration period; the romanticizing of the Highlands; the emergence of modern clan societies; and the important role of tartan
