The Myth of the Jacobite Clans - Couverture souple

Pittock, Murray

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0748607153 ISBN 13 : 9780748607150

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 1995

Synopsis

The Jacobite Rising of 1745 is one of the most famous and emotive in our history. It is also one of the most misunderstood. The Myth of the Jacobite Clans exposes the depth of myth and misrepresentation from which Scotland and the Jacobite cause have suffered over the last 250 years.Award-winning author Murray Pittock demonstrates that British history has marginalised the facts about Jacobitism because they threatened long-standing views of a unified Britain. Offering extensive detail of town-by-town recruitment to Bonnie Prince Charlie's army, his challenging book reveals that, far from being a Catholic and Highland dynastic rebellion, the '45 had the dimensions of a national rising. And as the account unfolds, a lost history is uncovered, and with it a lost Scotland.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Murray Pittock MAE FRSE is Bradley Professor and Pro Vice-Principal at the University of Glasgow, and Scotland’s leading cultural historian. A prizewinner of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy, he has held visiting appointments or spoken at the universities of UC Berkeley, Boston, Cambridge, Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, UCL, New York University, Notre Dame, Oslo, Oxford, the Sorbonne, Virginia, Yale, Gresham College, the British Academy, The British Museum, Hampton Court, the Smithsonian, the House of Commons and many other locations. He is the General Editor of the Collected Works of Allan Ramsay.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0748607153
• ISBN 13: 9780748607150
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible