Uprisings in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Mediation and the Transformation of Political Culture

Monika Barget

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781350377134
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350377165
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Storia
• Subtopic: Storia britannica

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 of constitutionalisation meant 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of figures
• Acknowledgements
• Note on the text
• List of abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 Agency through communication: Media genres and terminologies
• 2 Monarchs and aristocrats: The constitutionalization of leadership and the dialogization of political 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 Regular troops, militia and armed civilians: Military and paramilitary agency as vehicles of national identity and social integration
• 6 The people and the impact of public opinion
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Imprint