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