JACOBITES: BRITAIN AND EUROPE 1688-1788

The product of forty years of research by one of the foremost historians of Jacobitism, this book is a comprehensive revision of Professor Szechi's popular 1994 survey of the Jacobite movement in the British Isles and Europe. It provides an enhanced chronology, a convenient introduction to the historiography and a narrative of the history of Jacobitism including topics such as Jacobitism as a uniting force among the pirates of the Caribbean and as a key element in sustaining Irish peasant resistance to English colonial rule.