The Myth of the Jacobite Clans The Jacobite Army in 1745
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Sprache:Englisch
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
25.02.2009
Verlag
Edinburgh University PressSeitenzahl
240
Maße (L/B/H)
21.6/13.9/1.7 cm
Gewicht
312 g
Auflage
2. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-7486-2757-8
The first edition of The Myth of the Jacobite Clans was a revolutionary book. It argued that British history had long sought to caricature Jacobitism rather than to understand it, and that the Jacobite Risings drew on extensive Lowland support and had a national quality within Scotland. The Times Higher Education Supplement hailed its author's 'formidable talents' and the book and its ideas fuelled discussions in the national press.
Now entirely rewritten with extensive new primary research, this second edition addresses the questions of the first in more detail, examining the systematic misrepresentation of Jacobitism, the impressive size of the Jacobite armies, their training and organization and the Jacobite goal of dissolving the Union, and bringing to life the ordinary Scots who formed the core of Jacobite support in the ill-fated Rising of 1745. Now, more than ever, The Myth of the Jacobite Clans sounds the call for an end to the dismissive sneers and pointless romanticisation which have dogged the history of the subject in Scotland for 200 years.
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