Murray Pittock (University of Glasgow Bradley Professor)

Culloden

Great Battles

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The story of Culloden, one of the most important battles in Scottish history - how it was fought, how it has been remembered, and what it has come to mean.

Produktdetails

• Great Battles
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 381mm x 248mm x 2mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9780199664085
• ISBN-10: 0199664080
• Artikelnr.: 63427880

Autorenporträt

Professor Murray Pittock is Bradley Professor and Pro Vice-Principal at the University of Glasgow, and one of the leading scholars of Jacobitism and Romanticism globally. His books include The Myth of the Jacobite Clans, Material Culture and Sedition, Poetry and Jacobite Politics, Jacobitism, Inventing and Resisting Britain, The Invention of Scotland, and many others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the Royal Historical Society and has won or been nominated or shortlisted for fifteen literary prizes internationally.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction
* 2: Conflicts and Armies: The Rising of 1745
* 3: Culloden Moor
* 4: Aftermath and Occupation
* 5: The Battle that Made Britain ? Historiography and Evidence in the
case of Culloden
* 6: Culloden in British Memory: Objects, Artifacts and Representations
of the Conflict

Rezensionen

Unlike too much writing on places of memory, this is fresh, concise, free from jargon and well informed about realities. Jeremy Black, Books of the Year 2016, History Today