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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783199903321

Titolo

Press, politics, and the public sphere in Europe and North America, 1760-1820 / / edited by Hannah Barker and Simon Burrows [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-107-11839-5

1-280-16235-X

0-511-11813-9

0-511-02016-3

0-511-15775-4

0-511-32983-0

0-511-49666-4

0-511-04890-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 263 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

070.4/493209/09409033

Soggetti

Press and politics - Europe - History - 18th century

Press and politics - Europe - History - 19th century

Europe Politics and government 18th century

Europe Politics and government 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Hannah Barker, Simon Burrows -- Cosmopolitan press, 1760-1815 / Simon Burrows -- Netherlands, 1750-1815 / Nicolaas Van Sas -- Germany, 1760-1815 / Eckhart Hellmuth, Wolfgang Piereth -- England, 1760-1815 / Hannah Barker -- Ireland, 1760-1820 / Douglas Simes -- America, 1750-1820 / David Copeland -- France, 1750-89 / Jack Censer -- French revolutionary press / Hugh Gough -- Italy, 1760-1815 / Maurizio Isabella -- Russia, 1790-1830 / Miranda Beaven Remnek.

Sommario/riassunto

Newspapers are a vital component of print and political cultures, and as such they informed as well as documented the social and political upheavals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. However, despite



the huge influence attributed to them by both contemporary observers and historians, our knowledge of the nature and function of the newspaper press itself remains scant. Press, Politics and the Public Sphere in Europe and North America, 1760-1820 aims to fill this gap by examining aspects of the press in several European countries and America, both individually and comparatively, during this particularly turbulent and important period. Contributors explore the relationship between newspapers and social change, specifically in the context of the part played by the press in the political upheavals of the time. The collection examines the relationship between newspapers and public opinion, and attempts to define their place in the emergence of a 'public sphere'.