Culloden and the '45 [Paperback]

Jeremy Black (Author)

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Publication Date: February 25, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0750924624 | ISBN-13: 978-0750924627

The Jacobite rebellion of 1745 was one of the greatest challenges to the 18th-century British state. This study examines the political and military context of the uprising, highlighting the seriousness of the challenge it posed.

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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.

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• Paperback: 244 pages
• Publisher: Sutton Publishing (February 25, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0750924624
• ISBN-13: 978-0750924627
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,219,742 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Seeing the Whole Picture, But ..., June 30, 2004

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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.