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Category: Britain and the colonies

New book: Uprisings in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Mediation & the Transformation of Political Culture

“Uprisings in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Mediation & the Transformation of Political Culture” examines how the British Empire contained revolution by integrating opposition agents as new spaces of power opened up. The study re-evaluates the challenges posed to the Empire by the Glorious Revolution, the Jacobite Rebellion, the American Revolution, and Jacobin threats of the late 18th century.

Andreas Zaupser’s Über den falschen Religionseifer – a German response to the Gordon Riots in 1780

In June 1780, London was shaken by anti-Catholic violence which came to be known as the ‘Gordon Riots’. These riots expressed popular disaffection and fear in regard to the Catholic Relief Act passed by King and Parliament. But...