THE MYTH OF THE JACOBITE CLANS: THE JACOBITE ARMY IN 1745 by Murray Pittock (Edinburgh University Press, £19.99)
The Myth of the Jacobite Clans: the Jacobite Army in 1745, is a completely new and expanded version of a revolutionary book first published in 1995. Described by leading historian Jeremy Black as 'a point of departure for a reconceptualisation of Scottish history', this new version examines the systematic misrepresentation of Jacobitism, the impressive size of the Jacobite armies, their training, organization and weapons and the details of the Jacobite goal of dissolving the Union and the ordinary soldiers who helped them attempt to do it. The strength of Jacobite artillery and the fact that ordinary Highlanders could address their officers in English, not Gaelic, are only two of the findings this book puts forward. 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.
Murray Pittock DLitt FRSE
Bradley Professor of English Literature and Associate Dean (Research),
5 University Gardens,
University of Glasgow G12 8QQ.
Director, AHRC-supported Global Burns Network.
http://www.gla.ac.uk/globalburnsnetwork/
The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401
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