Culloden and the '45 [Paperback]

Jeremy Black (Author)

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Publication Date: December 1993 | ISBN-10: 0312103263 | ISBN-13: 978-0312103262

This book covers the bloody destruction at the battle of Culloden and looks at why the Jacobite rebellion fell apart.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He has written over thirty books including Pitt the Elder: The Great Commoner, A System of Ambition?, Why Wars Happen and volumes 2 and 3 of the National Trust Historical Atlas of Britain (forthcoming). He is also editor of the Dorling Kindersley Atlas of World History. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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• Paperback
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (December 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312103263
• ISBN-13: 978-0312103262
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,914,063 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Culloden and the 45 (Hardcover)

Jeremy Black has presented us with the entire mosaic of the Jacobite uprising in the mid-18th century. It is fascinating to see how he weaves the political and religious movements going on in George II's London, with Spain, Paris and the Low Countries into one larger picture. At times authors tend to be so myopic about their subject, but this gives us a broader field of vision. What this text does not do, however, is spend very much time, at all, on the Battle at Culloden Moor, which is what I was looking for. I found it tremendously profitable, if at times laborous, reading but distant from my hoped for goal. Perhaps the title should not have an emphasis on Culloden but rather on the entire Jacobite movement that surrounded the young Pretender.