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UNINA9910479876203321 |
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Autore |
McLeod Jane |
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Titolo |
Licensing loyalty : printers, patrons, and the state in early modern France / / Jane McLeod |
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University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2011] |
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©2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (302 p. ) |
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Collana |
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The Penn State series in the history of the book |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Printers - France - Social conditions |
Book industries and trade - Political aspects - France - History |
Censorship - France - History |
Printing - France - History |
Printers - Certification - France - History |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The early history of printers in provincial France, 1470-1660 -- The vicissitudes of a royal decree : enforcing the October 1667 Order in Council regulating printers in the provinces -- The royal council takes control : the 1701 inquiry and the Bureau de la Librairie -- The purges : the enforcement of printer quotas in the provinces after 1704 -- Arguments offered by printers in petitions for licences, 1667/1789 -- Patronage and bureaucracy intersect : five case studies in the reign of Louis XVI -- Behind the rhetoric : the social position and politics of provincial printers, 1750/1789 -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. Printers' wealth in the eighteenth century -- Appendix B. Some licensed provincial printers involved in the clandestine book trade, 1750-89, by town. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"Explores the evolution of the idea that the rise of print culture was a threat to the royal government of eighteenth-century France. Argues that French printers did much to foster this view as they negotiated a place in the expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the state"--Provided |
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