Join Us This February to Learn the True Story of Daniel Defoe and The Dirty Tricks Which Helped Bring Scotland Into Union with England.
_In 1706, Edinburgh was on the brink of a popular uprising. Men and women took to the streets to protest the planned union with England, fearing the end of Scottish sovereignty. But unbeknownst to the mob, a spy was in their midst-the English writer Daniel Defoe, now bankrupt and thrice pilloried, had turned a government agent._
_Marc Mierowsky tells the dramatic story of Defoe and his fellow spies as they sabotaged the Scottish independence movement from the inside. Together they disseminated propaganda and built a network of operatives from London to the upper Highlands, providing the English government with up-to-the-minute intelligence and monitoring its adversaries' every move.
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_Through the lives of Defoe and his ring, their handlers, and opponents, Mierowsky guides us through this shadowy underworld of espionage and propaganda-revealing a disturbing and distinctly modern political campaign._
Marc Mierowsky is an ARC DECRA Fellow and Lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne, where he researches seventeenth-and eighteenth-century literature and intellectual history. He is an associate editor of _The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe_ and coeditor of Oxford World Classic's edition of _Roxana: the Fortunate Mistress_.