The king over the water : a complete history of the Jacobites / Desmond Seward.
By: Seward, Desmond [author.]
.Publisher: Edinburgh : Birlinn, 2019Description: xxix, 466 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps.Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781780276762.Subject(s): Stuart, House of -- History | Jacobites | Great Britain -- History -- 1689-1714 | Great Britain -- History -- 1714-1837DDC classification: 941.07 Summary: "This is the first modern history for general readers of the entire Jacobite movement in Scotland, England and Ireland, from the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688 that drove James II into exile to the death of his grandson, Cardinal Henry, Duke of York, in 1807. The Battle of Culloden and Bonnie Prince Charlie’s flight through the heather are well known, but not the other risings and plots that involved half of Europe and even revolutionary America. Based on the latest research, The King over the Water weaves together all the strands of this gripping saga into a vivid, sweeping narrative, full of insight, analysis and anecdote. ‘Few causes have aroused a more gallant response from the peoples of these islands than the Honest Cause’, writes Desmond Seward, ‘whether they were fighting for it at Killiecrankie, Prestonpans or Culloden, at the Boyne, Aughrim or Fontenoy, or dying for it on the scaffold’"-- Birlinn site. https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-king-over-the-water-3/
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| 941.07 POR Flesh in the age of reason / | 941.07 RET Rethinking the age of reform : | 941.07 ROG Crowds, culture, and politics in Georgian Britain / | 941.07 SEW The king over the water : a complete history of the Jacobites / | 941.07 SIM Three victories and a defeat : | 941.07 UNI A union of multiple identities : | 941.07 WIL Decency and disorder : |
"This is the first modern history for general readers of the entire Jacobite movement in Scotland, England and Ireland, from the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688 that drove James II into exile to the death of his grandson, Cardinal Henry, Duke of York, in 1807. The Battle of Culloden and Bonnie Prince Charlie’s flight through the heather are well known, but not the other risings and plots that involved half of Europe and even revolutionary America. Based on the latest research, The King over the Water weaves together all the strands of this gripping saga into a vivid, sweeping narrative, full of insight, analysis and anecdote. ‘Few causes have aroused a more gallant response from the peoples of these islands than the Honest Cause’, writes Desmond Seward, ‘whether they were fighting for it at Killiecrankie, Prestonpans or Culloden, at the Boyne, Aughrim or Fontenoy, or dying for it on the scaffold’"-- Birlinn site.