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Autore |
Szechi D (Daniel) |
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Titolo |
Britain's lost revolution? : Jacobite Scotland and French grand strategy, 1701–8 / / Daniel Szechi |
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Manchester, UK : , : University Press, , 2015 |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2017 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (233 p.) |
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Collana |
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Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Politics and government |
Jacobites |
Diplomatic relations |
History |
Electronic books. |
Schottland |
Frankreich |
Scotland |
Great Britain |
France |
France History Louis XIV, 1643-1715 |
France Foreign relations Scotland |
Scotland Foreign relations France |
Great Britain Politics and government 1714-1727 |
Great Britain History George I, 1714-1727 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-213) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Britain's lost revolution?: Jacobite Scotland and French grand strategy, 1701-8; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations and maps; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations, dates, spelling and punctuation; Chapter 1: Britain's lost revolution and the historians; Chapter 2: March 1708 and its aftermath; Chapter 3: The |
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Jacobite underground in the early eighteenth century; Chapter 4: The Scots Jacobite agenda, 1702-10; Chapter 5:The geopolitics of the Enterprise of Scotland; Chapter 6: Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 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 r |
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