Culloden and the '45

By Jeremy Black and Black

Book Overview

There is little doubt that the '45 rebellion was the greatest challenge to the eighteenth-century British state. The battle of Culloden in which it culminated was certainly one of the most dramatic of the century. This study, based on extensive archival research, examines the political and military context of the uprising and highlights the seriousness of the challenge posed by the Jacobites. The result is an illuminating account of an episode often obscured by the perspectives of Stuart romance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750998504
• ISBN13: 9780750998505
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 256 Pages

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.