03422oam 22006974a 450 991048100740332120170919204552.01-84779-989-2(CKB)3710000000747551(EBL)4705589(MiAaPQ)EBC4705589(OCoLC)980747439(MdBmJHUP)muse59622(EXLCZ)99371000000074755120150708d2015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierBritain's lost revolution?Jacobite Scotland and French grand strategy, 1701–8 /Daniel SzechiManchester, UK :University Press,2015.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE, 2017©2015.1 online resource (233 p.)Politics, culture and society in early modern BritainDescription based upon print version of record.0-7190-8917-4 1-5261-0683-3 Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-213) and index.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 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; IndexThis 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 rPolitics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.Politics and governmentfast(OCoLC)fst01919741Jacobitesfast(OCoLC)fst00981046Diplomatic relationsfast(OCoLC)fst01907412JacobitesSchottlandgndFrankreichgndScotlandfastGreat BritainfastFrancefastFranceHistoryLouis XIV, 1643-1715FranceForeign relationsScotlandScotlandForeign relationsFranceGreat BritainPolitics and government1714-1727Great BritainHistoryGeorge I, 1714-1727History.Electronic books. Politics and government.Jacobites.Diplomatic relations.Jacobites.941.071Szechi D(Daniel),252707MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910481007403321Britain's lost revolution2467170UNINA