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Author Munck, Thomas, author

Title Conflict and enlightenment : print and political culture in Europe, 1635-1795 / Thomas Munck
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 368 pages)
Contents Print, production, authors and readers -- Instability and politicisation (1630-1677) -- Subversive print in the early enlightenment -- Translation and transmission across cultural borders -- High enlightenment, political texts and reform, 1748-89 -- Revolution: democracy and loyalism in print, 1789-1795
Summary New approaches to the history of print have allowed historians of early modern Europe to re-evaluate major shifts in religious, intellectual, cultural and political life across Europe. Drawing on precise and detailed study of the contexts of different types of print, including books, pamphlets, newspapers and flysheets, combined with quantitative analysis and a study of texts as material objects, Thomas Munck offers a transformed picture of early modern political culture, and through analysis of new styles and genres of writing he offers a fresh perspective on the intended readership. Conflict and Enlightenment uses a resolutely comparative approach to re-examine what was being disseminated in print, and how. By mapping the transmission of texts across cultural and linguistic divides, Munck reveals how far new forms of political discourse varied depending on the particular perspectives of authors, readers and regulatory authorities, as well as the cultural adaptability of translators and sponsors
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-363) and index
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Subject Book industries and trade -- Political aspects -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
Book industries and trade -- Political aspects -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
Printing -- Influence
Enlightenment -- Europe
Book industries and trade -- Political aspects.
Enlightenment.
Intellectual life.
Printing -- Influence.
Aufklärung
Buchmarkt
Politik
Politische Kultur
SUBJECT Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045727
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045728
Subject Europe.
Europa
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781139021289
1139021281