The Myth of the Jacobite Clans: The Jacobite Army in 1745 - Couverture rigide

Pittock, Murray

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0748627561 ISBN 13 : 9780748627561

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2009

Synopsis

The Myth of the Jacobite Clans was first published in 1995: 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 Economist and Scotland on Sunday, on Radio Scotland and elsewhere. The argument of the book has been widely accepted, although it is still ignored by media and heritage representations which seek to depoliticise the Rising of 1745. Now entirely rewritten with extensive new primary research, this new expanded 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Murray Pittock is Bradley Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow, and has formerly held chairs at the universities of Manchester (in Scottish Literature) and Strathclyde. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0748627561
• ISBN 13: 9780748627561
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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