Britain's Lost Revolution?: Jacobite Scotland and French Grand Strategy, 1701-8

By Daniel Szechi

Book Overview

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 injustice? What if the Scots Jacobites turn out to be the most radical, revolutionary party in early eighteenth-century British politics? Using newly discovered sources from the French and Scottish archives this exciting new book challenges our fundamental assumptions regarding the emergence of the fully British state in the early eighteenth century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526106833
• ISBN13: 9781526106834
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"