Vier Monarchien—Vier Öffentlichkeiten

Vier Monarchien—Vier Öffentlichkeiten: Kommunikation um die Schlacht bei Dettingen, by Sebastian Küster (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2004; pp. 556. Eur 45.90). There is an excellent idea underpinning this substantial volume. Sebastian Küster has taken one major military incident from the middle of the eighteenth century and has tested the response in four monarchies—England, Hanover, France and the Habsburg Monarchy—in an attempt to understand better that popular but not always clear concept ‘Öffentlichkeit’, variously translated as ‘the public’, ‘publicness’ or ‘public sphere’. The incident in question is the battle of Dettingen of 27 June 1743, when the ‘Pragmatic Army’ consisting of c.50,000 British, Hanoverian and Austrian troops, commanded in person by King George II, inflicted a crushing defeat on a French army of c.70,000, commanded by the Duc de Gramont and the Maréchal de Noailles. The different responses provoked by news of the battle's outcome were determined

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