This volume examines Highland society during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries highlighting the extent to which kinship and clientage were organising princi

The dual themes of this volume are the characteristics of patronage relationships and their political uses in early modern France. The first essays provide an o

This groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive study of the remaking of Ireland's aristocracy during the seventeenth century. It is a study of the Ir

This important book looks at how children in care can best be helped to attain desirable developmental outcomes. Owusu-Bempah introduces his notion of socio-gen

David A. deSilva demonstrates in this book how paying attention to the cultural themes of honor, patronage, kinship and purity opens us to new facets of the New