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The second edition of this revolutionary book argues that British history has 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.

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

The Myth of the Jacobite Clans

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      Publisher Edinburgh University Press
      Published 27 February 2009
      ISBN-13 9780748627561
      978-0748627561
      ISBN-10 0748627561

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The second edition of this revolutionary book argues that British history has 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.

      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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