Thomas Munck (University of Glasgow)

Conflict and Enlightenment

Print and Political Culture in Europe, 1635-1795

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 147mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9780521701808
• ISBN-10: 0521701805
• Artikelnr.: 57149363

Autorenporträt

Thomas Munck is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Glasgow where his research focuses on comparative European social, cultural and political history. A current member of a research group on Cultural Translation based in Germany, he is the recipient of research grants from the Carnegie Trust and British Academy, and the author of Seventeenth-Century Europe: State, Conflict and Social Order in Europe, 1598-1700 (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

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.