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Article: 1715 The Great Jacobite Rebellion.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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1715 The Great Jacobite Rebellion. Daniel Szechi. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]25.00. xvi + 351 pages. ISBN 0-300-11100-2. The author accepts that the '15 was, when compared to Jacobite struggles in 1689-91 and 1745, something of a 'damp squib'. It was also an 'implicitly arrogant event, undertaken by a section of the community convinced of their own superior righteousness' He uses this study not just to reassess the 1715 uprising but to gain new insights into Jacobitism. He first discusses the economic and political background and after those, the state of Jacobite feeling. He then traces the rebellion itself and its eventual collapse after which he looks ...