Loyalty and Identity: Jacobites at Home and Abroad

This collection of essays provides a series of fresh approaches to a fascinating subject: Jacobitism. The contributors focus on issues of identity and memory among Jacobites in Scotland, Ireland, England and Europe. They examine Jacobitism as an integral aspect of culture and society in the British Isles and beyond during the century after 1688.

Author: P. Monod
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/27/2009
Pages: 269
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780230222571

About the Author
PAUL MONOD is Barton Hepburn Professor of History at Middlebury College, Vermont. He has published books on a variety of subjects in British and European history, including Imperial Island: A History of Britain and its Empire, 1660-1837. He is now working on the role of the occult in the British Enlightenment.

MURRAY PITTOCK is Bradley Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow. His work on Jacobitism and Romanticism (most recently The Myth of the Jacobite Clans, 2nd edition, 2009) has a leading edge international profile. Professor Pittock is currently working on a study of material culture and sedition in the eighteenth century.

DANIEL SZECHI is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Manchester. His books include: 1715. The Great Jacobite Rebellion and George Lockhart of Carnwath 1689-1727: a Study in Jacobitism. He is currently working on the Scots Jacobite attempt to overthrow the Union in 1708.