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. Like the first edition, it is undergraduate-friendly,
providing an enhanced chronology, a convenient introduction to the
historiography and a narrative of the history of Jacobitism, alongside
topics specifically designed to engage student interest. This includes
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. As the only comprehensive introduction to the field, the book will
be essential reading for all those interested in early modern British
and European politics.