Conflict and Enlightenment: Print and Political Culture in Europe, 1635-1795

ISBN-13: 9780521701808 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 378 str.

Thomas Munck

Opis

This innovative study of political upheaval, revolution and Enlightenment in Europe views this tumultuous period through the prism of printed texts including books, pamphlets and newspapers. Taking a resolutely comparative approach, Conflict and Enlightenment re-examines what was being disseminated in print, and how.

Recenzje

'Munck skilfully combines observation and classification at the meta level, and presents the interaction between political events and the production, distribution, and reception of print media, whose format allowed them to adapt to different political conditions.' Christine Haug, German Historical Institute London Bulletin

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Print, production, authors and readers; 2. Instability and politicisation (1630–77); 3. Subversive print in the early Enlightenment; 4. Translation and transmission across cultural borders; 5. High enlightenment, political texts and reform (1748–89); 6. Revolution: democracy and loyalism in print (1789–95); Conclusions.