Allan Macinnes is Burnett-Fletcher Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen. He has published extensively on Covenants, Clans and Clearances, British State Formation and Jacobitism. His previous publications include Clanship, Commerce and the House of Stuart, 1603 1788 (1996) and, as co-editor with A. H. Williamson, Shaping the Stuart World, 1603 1714: the American Connection (2006).