“Diaspora of a lost cause,” by Warren Frye

“Diaspora of a lost cause,” by Warren Frye

Jacobitism has been written about as much by the historians as it has by the poets, and the Scottish historian Allan I. MacInnes is hardly unaware of the challenge he is setting himself in making a fresh contribution to this field. In Conflict and Loyalty: Jacobitism in Europe and Beyond, he teases out a unique approach to Jacobite historiography by writing a history of Scottish Jacobitism that focuses on Scottish Jacobites outside of Scotland. …