Alan Sutton Pub Ltd [Published Date: 1993]. Softcover, 217 pp. Black and white illustrations. [From back cover] There is little doubt that the '45 rebellion was the greatest challenge to the eighteenth-century British state. The battle of Culloden in which it culminated was certainly one of the most dramatic of the century. This study, based on extensive archival research, examines the political and military context of the uprising and highlights the seriousness of the challenge posed by the Jacobites. The result is an illuminating account of an episode often obscured by the perspectives of Stuart romance. Jeremy Black, Ph.D., FRHS, is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Durham. He has written numerous books on eighteenth-century history, including The Collapse of the Anglo-French Alliance 1727-31, Eighteenth-Century Europe, Britain in the Age of Walpole (ed.), The Origins of War in Early Modern Europe and The Jacobite Challenge.