Uprisings in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Mediation and the Transformation of Political Culture [Hardcover]

This study examines how the British Empire of the 18th century contained revolution by integrating opposition agents as new spaces of power opened up. Monika Barget convincingly argues that this process ofconstitutionalisationmeant that groups from the aristocracy to religious communities, from the army to the people at large, were brought into the system in a way that balanced the obvious, serious challenges that the Glorious Revolution, the Jacobite Rebellion, the American Revolution, and Jacobin threats of the late-18th century posed to the Empire. Barget highlights the lasting political and legal repercussions of this process. The structure of the chapters, each focussing on specific agents and conflict media, also links the history of political agency and political institutions with an expanding European and even trans-continental media market.A wide-ranging study of how 18th-century opposition groups were neutralised by the British Empire through various means.Monika Bargetis Assistant Professor in Digital Research Methods in the History Department at Maastricht University, The Netherlands.Where Barget excels is her comprehensive examination across the breadth of British society from the everyday person all the way up to the institutionality of the monarch ...Uprisings in Eighteenth-Century Britainputs conflict, revolt, revolution, and war into conversation with communication methods of deescalation that in tandem altered the formation and trajectory of political culture in the Age of Enlightenment H-Net Reviews

Introduction
1. Agency through Communication: Media Genres and Terminologies
2. Monarchs and Aristocrats: The Constitutionalisation of Leadership and the Dialogisation of Government Communication
3. Parliament, Parties and Politicians: Conflict Negotiation through Representation
4. Religious Communities and Religious Leaders: Inclusive and Divisive Potentials of Faith after the Glorious Revolution
5. Regul“3