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.
Daniel Szechi
Britain’s lost revolution? [EPUB ebook]
Jacobite Scotland and French grand strategy, 1701-8
Britain’s lost revolution? [EPUB ebook]
Jacobite Scotland and French grand strategy, 1701-8
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Bahasa Inggris ● Format EPUB ● Halaman 232 ● ISBN 9781847799890 ● Penerbit Manchester University Press ● Diterbitkan 2016 ● Diunduh 3 kali ● Mata uang EUR ● ID 6692593 ● Perlindungan salinan Adobe DRM
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