F. J. McLynn
France and the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
Edinburgh University Press, 1981. First edition. 0852244045 277 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", is bound in blue cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is in excellent condition, with firm binding and clean, bright pages. This work contains eight illustrations, notes and references, bibliography, and an index. Intact dust jacket displays light shelfwear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
"The attempt to foster rebellion among disaffected national minorities, as a means of overturning established government, is as old as international politics. In the 18th century France missed few opportunities to use it against the Hanoverian monarchy. No opportunity was greater than that offered by the Jacobites. Here was a chance not merely to assert the principles of legitimacy through the restoration of the Stuarts, but in so doing to forge an alliance that would obviate the threat of the English navy to French imperialism. Yet the French muffed it...This original analysis is so convincingly documented, from French sources which no one has previously studied in painstaking depth, that it cannot fail to carry conviction."