The myth of the Jacobite clans : the Jacobite Army in 1745

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The myth of the Jacobite clans : the Jacobite Army in 1745

Murray Pittock

Edinburgh University Press, 2009

2nd, comprehensively rev. and expanded ed

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-223) and index

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The Myth of the Jacobite Clans was first published in 1995: a revolutionary book, it argued that British history had long sought to caricature Jacobitism rather than to understand it, and that the Jacobite Risings drew on extensive Lowland support and had a national quality within Scotland. The Times Higher Education Supplement hailed its author's 'formidable talents' and the book and its ideas fuelled discussions in The Economist and Scotland on Sunday, on Radio Scotland and elsewhere. The argument of the book has been widely accepted, although it is still ignored by media and heritage representations which seek to depoliticise the Rising of 1745. Now entirely rewritten with extensive new primary research, this new expanded second edition addresses the questions of the first in more detail, examining the systematic misrepresentation of Jacobitism, the impressive size of the Jacobite armies, their training and organization and the Jacobite goal of dissolving the Union, and bringing to life the ordinary Scots who formed the core of Jacobite support in the ill-fated Rising of 1745. Now, more than ever, The Myth of the Jacobite Clans sounds the call for an end to the dismissive sneers and pointless romanticisation which have dogged the history of the subject in Scotland for 200 years.

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: British Histories and Scottish Myths
  • Chapter 1: What is a Highlander, What was a Jacobite?
  • Chapter 2: The Myth of the Jacobite Clans
  • Chapter 3: Jacobites in the Localities, 1745-60
  • Chapter 4: Nationalists or Jacobites?
  • Chapter 5: Jacobite Weapons
  • Appendix: Lists of the Jacobite Units in the Risings of 1689-92, 1715 and 1745
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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