Uprisings in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Monika Barget is Assistant Professor in Digital Research Methods in the History Department at Maastricht University, The Netherlands.

• Introduction1. Agency through Communication: Media Genres and Terminologies2. Monarchs and Aristocrats: The Constitutionalisation of Leadership and the Dialogisation of Government Communication3. Parliament, Parties and Politicians: Conflict Negotiation through Representation4. Religious Communities and Religious Leaders: Inclusive and Divisive Potentials of Faith after the Glorious Revolution5. Regular Troops, Militia and Armed Civilians: Military and Paramilitary Agency as Vehicles of Identity and Integration6. The People, the Mob and the Re-Evaluation of Public OpinionConclusionBibliographyIndex

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 Britain puts 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