Paul Hopkins, an authority on early Jacobitism, sets the Massacre of Glencoe in its true context. The book describes the tensions in the Highlands between the Restoration and the End of the Revolution and the influence on the Highlands of national politics.

Besides filling a blank in our knowledge of the Highlands in the decade following the Massacre, the book transforms our perspective on lowlands politics by showing that the Inquiry was part of a secret patriotic campaign to break the aristocracy’s political stranglehold and increase the Scottish parliament’s powers.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Epigraph
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Maps
• Preface to the Paperback Edition
• Introduction: Sources and Acknowledgements
• 1. The Highlanders and the Nation (1590–1660)
• 2. Restoration without Settlement: the Campbells and their Enemies (1660–1680)
• 3. The Loyalist Revenge (1680–December 1688)
• 4. ‘The Last and Best of Scots’ (December 1688–July 1689)
• 5. Dunkeld (July–September 1689)
• 6. The Haughs of Cromdale (September 1689–June 1690)
• 7. The Williamite Offensive (June–December 1690)
• 8. The Road to Achallader (November 1690–June 1691)
• 9. Ratification and Sabotage (July–October 1691)
• 10. The Massacre (October 1691–February 1692)
• 11. The ‘Episcopalian’ Ministry (February 1692–October 1694)
• 12. The Inquiry (November 1694–February 1696)
• 13. Magnate Revival and Highland Disorder (1696–1702)
• Conclusion
• Select Bibliography and Abbreviations
• Index