Culloden and the '45

by Jeremy Black and Black

Book Overview

The Jacobite rebellion of 1745 was one of the greatest challenges to the 18th-century British state. This study examines the political and military context of the uprising, highlighting the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312051972
• ISBN13: 9780312051976
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Seeing the Whole Picture, But ...

Jeremy Black has presented us with the entire mosaic of the Jacobite uprising in the mid-18th century. It is fascinating to see how he weaves the political and religious movements going on in George II's London, with Spain, Paris and the Low Countries into one larger picture. At times authors tend to be so myopic about their subject, but this gives us a broader field of vision. What this text does not do, however, is spend very much time, at all, on the Battle at Culloden Moor, which is what I was looking for. I found it tremendously profitable, if at times laborous, reading but distant from my hoped for goal. Perhaps the title should not have an emphasis on Culloden but rather on the entire Jacobite movement that surrounded the young Pretender.