The Press and Military Conflict in Early Modern Scotland

Citation

Mann A (2002) The Press and Military Conflict in Early Modern Scotland. In: Murdock S & Mackillop A (eds.) Fighting for Identity: Scottish Military Experience c.1550-1900. History of Warfare, 15. Leiden: Brill, pp. 265-286. http://www.brill.com/fighting-identity

Abstract
This essay explores the engagement of the press and printers in the military campaigns of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries focusing especially on the Covenanters and Jacobites. Particular emphasis is placed on the involvement of printers themselves and on how they persisted in spite of the efforts of oppositional authority.

Keywords
Printing press; warfare; Covenanting; Jacobites; Scottush History; book trade