Book contents
- Conflict and Enlightenment
- Conflict and Enlightenment
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- Select Bibliography (Works Published after 1800)
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2019
Book contents
- Conflict and Enlightenment
- Conflict and Enlightenment
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- Select Bibliography (Works Published after 1800)
- Index
Summary
The Introduction defines how historians might use the term political culture as applied to early modern Europe. It explores notions of legitimate authority, the exercise of power, as well as the widespread norms of patriarchy and coercion in the period 1635–1795. It explains the importance of print as the most effective medium for the dissemination of both traditional and new ideas about civic society and good governance.
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- Conflict and EnlightenmentPrint and Political Culture in Europe, 1635–1795, pp. 1 - 24Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019