Description
Book SynopsisUsing 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.
Trade Review'Published in the year of the Scottish independence referendum, Britain's lost revolution? is a deeply researched and readable account of the alternatives that existed at the time of the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707. It presents a lost past of radical change and European realignments. Built on totally new research in UK and international archives, Szechi tells the story of the revolution that never was in a way that illuminates the present and provides endless opportunity for counterfactual history. This is a What If? book par excellence'
Professor Murray Pittock, University of Glasgow
'This book is a significant contribution to Jacobite studies and is a great addition to Daniel Szechi’s already impressive body of work.'
Kirsteen M. MacKenzie, University of Aberdeen, Northern Scotland
‘This is not the first book, but it is by far the most convincing, detailed and lucid study of the failed Jacobite rising in 1708 that occurred in the aftermath of the Treaty of Union and in the midst of the War of the Spanish Succession. This is a sound and imaginative work of scholarship that is grounded in international archives.’
Allan I. Macinnes, University of Strathclyde, Innes Review
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Table of Contents1. Britain’s lost revolution and the historians
2. March 1708 and its aftermath
3. The Jacobite underground in the early eighteenth century
4. The Scots Jacobite agenda, 1702–10
5. The geopolitics of the enterprise of Scotland
6. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
