The Myth of the Jacobite Clans : : The Jacobite Army in 1745 / / Murray Pittock.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Pittock, Murray,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

The first edition of The Myth of the Jacobite Clans was 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 national press.Now entirely rewritten with extensive new primary research, this 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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: British Histories and Scottish Myths -- 1 What is a Highlander, What was a Jacobite? -- 2 The Myth of the Jacobite Clans -- 3 Jacobites in the Localities, 1745–60 -- 4 Nationalists or Jacobites? -- 5 Jacobite Weapons -- Appendix The Jacobite Armies, 1688–1746 -- Bibliography -- Index