Jacobitism involved much more than a debate about the merits of a particular dynasty. Men and women were well aware that its success was almost certain to involved them in civil war. And the more politically educated knew that the Stuart Pretender was a pawn in a worldwide struggle for commercial and imperial primacy between Britain and France.
A British imperium enabled Scots to feel themselves peers of the Ebglish in a way still denied them in an island kingdom. The language bears that out… - Linda Colley
A British imperium enabled Scots to feel themselves peers of the Ebglish in a way still denied them in an island kingdom. The language bears that out…
- Linda Colley
A fundamental reason why Britain was not torn apart by civil war after 1688 was that its inhabitants' aggression was channelled so regularly and so r… - Linda Colley
A fundamental reason why Britain was not torn apart by civil war after 1688 was that its inhabitants' aggression was channelled so regularly and so r…
In the last quarter of the 20th century, Britons have been understandably obsessed with the problem of having too little power in the world. In the t… - Linda Colley
In the last quarter of the 20th century, Britons have been understandably obsessed with the problem of having too little power in the world. In the t…
In the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, as in so many later conflicts, British women seem to have been no more markedly pacifist tha… - Linda Colley
In the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, as in so many later conflicts, British women seem to have been no more markedly pacifist tha…
At one level Great Britain at the beginning of the 18th century was like the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, both three and one, and altogether so… - Linda Colley
At one level Great Britain at the beginning of the 18th century was like the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, both three and one, and altogether so…
Human beings are many-layered creatures, and do not succumb to the hegemony of others as easily as historians and politicians sometimes imply. Those … - Linda Colley
Human beings are many-layered creatures, and do not succumb to the hegemony of others as easily as historians and politicians sometimes imply. Those …
Contrary to received wisdom, the British are not an insular people in the conventional sense - far from it. For most of their early modern and modern… - Linda Colley
Contrary to received wisdom, the British are not an insular people in the conventional sense - far from it. For most of their early modern and modern…
These developments - a massive transfer of land by way of inheritance and purchase, an unprecedented rise in the profitability of land and increasing… - Linda Colley
These developments - a massive transfer of land by way of inheritance and purchase, an unprecedented rise in the profitability of land and increasing…
In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe. - Linda Colley
In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.
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