Jacobitism in Britain and the United States, 1880-1910 9780228014010

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Jacobitism in Britain and the United States, 1880-1910 : McGill-Queen's University Press : 9780228014010 : 0228014018 : 15 Jan 2023 : In the late nineteenth century a resurgent Jacobite movement emerged in Britain and the United States, highlighting the virtues of the Stuart monarchs in contrast to liberal, democratic, and materialist Victorian Britain and Gilded Age America. Compared with similarly aligned protest movements of the era ? socialism, anarchism, nihilism, populism, and progressivism ? the rise of Jacobitism receives little attention.Born in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Jacobitism had been in steep decline since the mid-eighteenth century. But between 1880 and 1910, Jacobite organizations popped up across Britain, then spread to the United States, publishing royalist magazines, organizing public demonstrations, offering Anglo-Catholic masses to fallen Stuart kings, and praying at Stuart statues and tombs. Michael Connolly explains the rise and fall of Anglo-American Ja

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