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Culloden

Great Battles

Murray Pittock

Publication Date - October 2022

ISBN: 9780199664085

224 pages
Paperback
7.7 x 5.1 inches

In Stock

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The battle of Culloden lasted less than an hour. The forces involved on both sides were small, even by the standards of the day. And it is arguable that the ultimate fate of the 1745 Jacobite uprising had in fact been sealed ever since the Jacobite retreat from Derby several months before.

But for all this, Culloden is a battle with great significance in British history. It was the last pitched battle on the soil of the British Isles to be fought with regular troops on both sides. It came to stand for the final defeat of the Jacobite cause. And it was the last domestic contestation of the Act of Union of 1707, the resolution of which propelled Great Britain to be the dominant world power for the next 150 years.

If the battle itself was short, its aftermath was brutal - with the depredations of the Duke of Cumberland followed by a campaign to suppress the clan system and the Highland way of life. And its afterlife in the centuries since has been a fascinating one, pitting British Whig triumphalism against a growing romantic memorialization of the Jacobite cause.

On both sides there has long been a tendency to regard the battle as a dramatic clash, between Highlander and Lowlander, Celt and Saxon, Catholic and Protestant, the old and the new. Yet, as this account of the battle and its long cultural afterlife suggests, while viewing Culloden in such a way might be rhetorically compelling, it is not necessarily good history.

Features

  • The Great Battles Series. The story of the world's most important battles - how they were fought, how they have been commemorated, and the long historical shadows that they have cast
  • Culloden - one of the most significant battles in British history and the last pitched battle on British soil between regular armies
  • How and why it was fought - and its significance in the wider history of Great Britain, the Anglo-Scottish relationship, and the wider world
  • The story of how Culloden has been remembered in the centuries since it was fought - and the compelling but often misleading myths that have come to surround it

About the Author(s)

Murray Pittock, Bradley Professor, University of Glasgow

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.

Table of Contents

    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

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