Britain´s Lost Revolution?: Jacobite Scotland and French Grand Strategy, 1701–8
Daniel Szechi
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Description for Britain´s Lost Revolution?: Jacobite Scotland and French Grand Strategy, 1701–8
Hardback. Series: Politics, Culture & Society in Early Modern Britain. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 black & white halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 22. Weight in Grams: 506.
This book is a frontal attack on an entrenched orthodoxy. Our official, public vision of the early eighteenth century demonises Louis XIV and France and marginalises the Scots Jacobites. Louis is seen as an incorrigibly imperialistic monster and the enemy of liberty and all that is good and progressive. The Jacobite Scots are presented as so foolishly reactionary and dumbly loyal that they were (sadly) incapable of recognising their manifest destiny as the cannon fodder of the first British empire. But what if Louis acted in defence of a nation’s liberties and (for whatever reason) sought to right a historic ... Read more
This book is a frontal attack on an entrenched orthodoxy. Our official, public vision of the early eighteenth century demonises Louis XIV and France and marginalises the Scots Jacobites. Louis is seen as an incorrigibly imperialistic monster and the enemy of liberty and all that is good and progressive. The Jacobite Scots are presented as so foolishly reactionary and dumbly loyal that they were (sadly) incapable of recognising their manifest destiny as the cannon fodder of the first British empire. But what if Louis acted in defence of a nation’s liberties and (for whatever reason) sought to right a historic ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719089176
SKU
V9780719089176
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About Daniel Szechi
Daniel Szechi is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Manchester -- .
Reviews for Britain´s Lost Revolution?: Jacobite Scotland and French Grand Strategy, 1701–8
'Published in the year of the Scottish independence referendum, Britain's lost revolution? is a deeply researched and readable account of the alternatives that existed at the time of the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707. It presents a lost past of radical change and European realignments. Built on totally new research in UK and international archives, Szechi tells the story of the ... Read more