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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Map -- Introduction. The Early Modern Scottish Nobility -- Part 1. Wealth -- 1. Landlords -- 2. Entrepreneurs -- 3. Expenditure -- 4. Debt -- Part 2. Family -- 5. Marrying -- 6. Spouses -- 7. Children -- Part 3. Culture -- 8. Education -- 9. Leisure -- 10. Religion -- 11. Death -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Map -- Chapter 1 Noble Power and Politics, 1560‒1603 -- Chapter 2 Chiefs -- Chapter 3 Lords -- Chapter 4 Magistrates -- Chapter 5 Soldiers -- Chapter 6 Governors -- Chapter 7 Courtiers -- Chapter 8 Noble Power and Politics, 1603‒37 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Keith Brown examines how Krusevo's residents, refugees, and exiles have participated--along with scholars, journalists, artists, bureaucrats, and politicians--in a conversation about their vexed past. By tracing different approaches to understanding, commemorating, and narrating the events of 1903, he shows how in this small mountain town the "magic of nationalism" by which destiny is written into particular historical events has neither failed nor wholly succeeded. Stories of heroism, self-sacrifice, and unity still rub against tales of treachery, score settling, and disaster as people come to terms with the legacies of imperialism, socialism, and nationalism. The efforts of Krusevo's successive generations to transcend a past of intercommunal violence reveal how rival claims to knowledge and truth acquire vital significance during rapid social, economic, and political change

Taking the view that micro-historical approaches augment our understanding of how sweeping societal change is experienced and enacted 'from below' by human actors, this paper focuses on the largely forgotten 'Vevčani affair' (1987–1989) to illuminate some under-examined modalities of violence in the waning years of Communist Party rule in Yugoslavia. In particular, the paper seeks to trace how physical violence by security forces against residents of Vevčani, a village in Western Macedonia, in August 1987 (as well as an earlier confrontation in May 1987) was part of a larger framework of forces, which included three other modalities of violence here defined as existential, reputational and narratival. The paper also examines the degree to which this particular dispute in the Republic of Macedonia became part of broader political battles in Yugoslavia, and how the existence of differentiated 'publics' within an increasingly tenuous federation operated to accelerate the dramatic changes under way in the different republics.