Rebellion and Savagery: The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the British Empire

by Geoffrey Plank

In the summer of 1745, Charles Edward Stuart, the grandson of England's King James II, landed on the western coast of Scotland intending to overthrow George II and restore the Stuart family to the throne. He gathered thousands of supporters, and the insurrection he led--the Jacobite Rising of 1745--was a crisis not only for Britain but for the entire British Empire. Rebellion and Savagery examines the 1745 rising and its aftermath on an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812238982
• ISBN13: 9780812238983
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"