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Daniel Szechi is a graduate of the University of Sheffield and St Antony's College, Oxford and is a professor of. .

Daniel Szechi is a graduate of the University of Sheffield and St Antony's College, Oxford and is a professor of history at Auburn University in Alabama. He has written extensively on Jacobitism and the early eighteenth-century British Isles. His books include 'The Jacobites: Britain and Europe 1688-1788' (1994) and 'George Lockhart of Carnwath 1689-1727: A Study in Jacobitism' (2002).

Those interested in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715 used to note that not one book had been published that solely covered this subject since John Baynes's The .

Those interested in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715 used to note that not one book had been published that solely covered this subject since John Baynes's The Jacobite Rising of 1715 in 1970.

Drawing on a substantial range of fresh primary resources in England, Scotland, and France, Daniel Szechi analyzes not only large and dramatic moments of the rebellion but also the smaller risings that took place throughout Scotland and northern England. Lacking the romantic imagery of the 1745 uprising of supporters of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 has received far less attention from scholars. Yet the ’15, just eight years after the union of England and Scotland, was in fact a more significant threat to the British state.

Drawing on a substantial range of fresh primary resources in England, Scotland and France, Daniel Szechi analyses not only large and dramatic moments of the rebellion but also the smaller risings that took place throughout Scotland and northern England. He examines the complex reasons that led some men to rebel and others to stay at home, and he reappraises the economic, religious, social and political circumstances that precipitated a Jacobite rising.

Lacking the romantic imagery of the 1745 uprising of supporters of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 has received far less attention from scholars

Lacking the romantic imagery of the 1745 uprising of supporters of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 has received far less attention from scholars. Yet the '15, just eight years after the union of England and Scotland, was in fact a more significant threat to the British state. He examines the complex reasons that led some men to rebel and others to stay at home, and he reappraises the economic, religious, social, and political circumstances that precipitated a Jacobite rising.

New Haven: Yale University Press. Of this school, Szechi is one of the leaders

New Haven: Yale University Press. Of this school, Szechi is one of the leaders. Much of the interest of the Fifteen, he argues, arises not from dramatic battles lost and won, but from the historical sociology of the subject: "how and why the Jacobite communities of the British Isles and diaspora generated this rebeUion and what innate social and cultural dynamics within those communities trended the rebeUion towards its eventual outcome. Despite the domination of the book by mUitary detaU, it is clear that the Scots Jacobites took the decision to rise since they were "inspired by their conviction that God was teËing them to seize the moment.

4 1715: The Great Jacobite Rebellion by Daniel Szechi. 5 France and the Jacobite Rising of 1745 by Frank McLynn. Jacobitism has always had a bit of a romantic allure for me - maybe because I read Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley when I was 18 or had some romantic image of Charles Edward Stuart-Bonnie Prince Charlie-in my mind. That was about two thirds of the maximum number - of ‘fencible’ men, that is men who can be raised for military service in Scotland, who could fight, at that time.