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Join Michael Connolly for a talk about Anglo-American Jacobitism, "That Time Americans Wanted a Monarchy". Michael Connolly will be in conversation with Jonathan Swarts, the Dean of the Honors College.
In person: LSF 002, Westville Campus, Purdue University Northwest, Westville, Indiana and (via Zoom): The Student Union and Library Building (SULB), Hammond Campus, Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, Indiana
You can also join on Zoom:
Meeting ID: 973 1284 1198, Passcode: 012498
Michael J. Connolly is professor of history at Purdue University Northwest.
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 Jacobitism, places it in context, and reveals its significance as a response to and a driver of the political forces of the period. Understanding the Jacobite movement clarifies Victorian Anglo-American anxiety over liberalism, democracy, industrialization, and emerging modernity.
In an age when worries over liberalism are again ascendant, Jacobitism in Britain and the United States, 1880-1910 traces the complex genealogy of this unease.