Author: John Hill BurtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Jacobite Correspondence of the Atholl Family
Author: John Hill BurtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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The Jacobite Rising of 1715 and the Murray Family
Author: Rosalind AndersonPublisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1526727641
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Based in Perthshire, the Murray family played an important role in all Jacobite rebellions, whether as rebels or supporters of the government. During the Great Rising of 1715, the head of the family the Duke of Atholl remained loyal to the Hanoverian government but three of his sons were Jacobites. Two of these brothers then went on to play major roles in the 1719 Rising and in the more famous '45. What led to their decision to commit to the Jacobite cause? A look at the earlier years of the Murrays at the end of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries sheds light on the family dynamics and helps explain how and why the brothers made the decisions they did. Traditionally the Murrays were thought to have perhaps made a conscious and pragmatic decision to have a foot in both camps, but the evidence presented here shows the brothers possessed a strong rebellious streak. Despite the heavily enforced regime of duty from their father and the Presbyterian piety of their mother, they refused to conform to their parents’ wishes and in varying degrees chose of their own volition, a different path to that expected of them. Set against the backdrop of social unrest and anxiety over against English influence in Scotland, these choices had a significant impact on the history of the family and because of who that family was, a significant impact on the country.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745
Author: A.T. ThomsonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732629821
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745
Author: Katherine ThomsonMemoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745: Lord George Murray. James Drummond, duke of Perth. Flora Macdonald. William Boyd, earl of Kilmarnock. Charles Radcliffe
Author: Byerley ThomsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jacobite Rebellion, 1715
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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The Life & Adventures of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
Author: William Drummond NoriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Jacobite Correspondence of the Atholl Family : During the Rebellion, M.DCC.XLV - M.DCC.XLVI : From the Originals in the Possession of James Erskine of Aberdona, Esq.
Author: David LaingPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368742353
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
Myth of the Jacobite Clans
Author: Pittock Murray PittockPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474471684
Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Myth of the Jacobite Clans was first published in 1995: a revolutionary book, it argued that British history had 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. The Times Higher Education Supplement hailed its author's 'formidable talents' and the book and its ideas fuelled discussions in The Economist and Scotland on Sunday, on Radio Scotland and elsewhere. The argument of the book has been widely accepted, although it is still ignored by media and heritage representations which seek to depoliticise the Rising of 1745.Now entirely rewritten with extensive new primary research, this new expanded second edition addresses the questions of the first in more detail, examining the systematic misrepresentation of Jacobitism, the impressive size of the Jacobite armies, their training and organization and the Jacobite goal of dissolving the Union, and bringing to life the ordinary Scots who formed the core of Jacobite support in the ill-fated Rising of 1745. Now, more than ever, The Myth of the Jacobite Clans sounds the call for an end to the dismissive sneers and pointless romanticisation which have dogged the history of the subject in Scotland for 200 years.
Rebellion and Savagery
Author: Geoffrey PlankPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812207114
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In the summer of 1745, Charles Edward Stuart, the grandson of England's King James II, landed on the western coast of Scotland intending to overthrow George II and restore the Stuart family to the throne. He gathered thousands of supporters, and the insurrection he led—the Jacobite Rising of 1745—was a crisis not only for Britain but for the entire British Empire. Rebellion and Savagery examines the 1745 rising and its aftermath on an imperial scale. Charles Edward gained support from the clans of the Scottish Highlands, communities that had long been derided as primitive. In 1745 the Jacobite Highlanders were denigrated both as rebels and as savages, and this double stigma helped provoke and legitimate the violence of the government's anti-Jacobite campaigns. Though the colonies stayed relatively peaceful in 1745, the rising inspired fear of a global conspiracy among Jacobites and other suspect groups, including North America's purported savages. The defeat of the rising transformed the leader of the army, the Duke of Cumberland, into a popular hero on both sides of the Atlantic. With unprecedented support for the maintenance of peacetime forces, Cumberland deployed new garrisons in the Scottish Highlands and also in the Mediterranean and North America. In all these places his troops were engaged in similar missions: demanding loyalty from all local inhabitants and advancing the cause of British civilization. The recent crisis gave a sense of urgency to their efforts. Confident that "a free people cannot oppress," the leaders of the army became Britain's most powerful and uncompromising imperialists. Geoffrey Plank argues that the events of 1745 marked a turning point in the fortunes of the British Empire by creating a new political interest in favor of aggressive imperialism, and also by sparking discussion of how the British should promote market-based economic relations in order to integrate indigenous peoples within their empire. The spread of these new political ideas was facilitated by a large-scale migration of people involved in the rising from Britain to the colonies, beginning with hundreds of prisoners seized on the field of battle and continuing in subsequent years to include thousands of men, women and children. Some of the migrants were former Jacobites and others had stood against the insurrection. The event affected all the British domains.
Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow
Author: Faculty of Procurators in Glascow. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
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