From Chiefs to Landlords Author:Robert A. Dodgshon 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... more » and kinsmen, landlords and tenants, farming systems, production strategies and marketing--changed between the 16th and 18th centuries, it shows how the character and ideology of clans and chiefdoms are inextricably part of the twin problems of sociopolitical control and of production. Shifting the emphasis away from depictions of Highland society as lawless and disorganized, this is a welcome antidote to the many romanticized views of pre-Clearance society.« less