The Jacobites

Part 1 Introduction: the optimists; the pessimists; the rejectionists; Jacobitism and the shape of British history. Part 2 Jacobite society: hierarchy and power in Britain, 1688-1788; the structure of Jacobite society; the Jacobite milieu. Part 3 The ideology of Jacobitism: the unfolding of the Jacobite ideal; popular Jacobitism and its motifs; the religion of Jacobitism. Part 4 Jacobitism and the British state, 1689-1716: the struggle for the periphery, 1689-91; the war of the English succession, 1689-97; the underground war, 1689-1714 - military conspiracies, subversion; the rise of Jacobitism in England, 1692-1715; the rise of Jacobitism in Scotland, 1692-1715; the 1715 rebellion. Part 5 A European cause and its defeat, 1716-1759: rebellion as a tool of statecraft in 18th-century Europe - France, Sweden, Spain, Russia, Prussia, the Papacy. Part 6 The Jacobite diaspora, 1688-1788: the external diaspora, the internal diaspora.