Britain's Lost Revolution: Jacobite Scotland and French Grand Strategy, 17018

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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 foolis

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'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 Szechis 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

Author Bio

Daniel Szechi is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Manchester