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Recent Approaches to the Eighteenth Century Press. A Review Article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Jack R. Censer
Affiliation:
George Mason University

Abstract

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CSSH Discussion
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1989

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References

For their helpful advice, I would like to thank Jane Turner Censer, James C. Turner, Lynn Hunt, Lenard Berlanstein, and Seymour Drescher.

1 See, for example, Lang, Gladys E. and Lang, Kurt, The Battle for Public Opinion: The President, the Press and the Polls During Watergate (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983).Google Scholar

2 Bim, Raymond, Pierre Rousseau and the Philosophes of Bouillon (Geneva: Studies on Voltaire and the 18th Century, 1964)Google Scholar

3 Darnton, Robert, “The High Enlightenment and the Low-Life of Literature in Pre-Revolutionary France, ” Past and Present, no. 51 (1971), 81115.Google Scholar

4 Furet, Francois, Interpreting the French Revolution, Forster, Elborg, trans. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).Google Scholar

5 Botein, Stephen, “Printers and the American Revolution,” in The Press and the American Revolution, Bailyn, Bernard and Hench, John B., eds. (Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1980), 1112.Google Scholar

6 Ibid., 11–58.

7 Gunn, J. A. W., Beyond Liberty and Property: The Process of Self-Recognition in Eighteenth-Century Political Thought (Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1983), 4395.Google Scholar

8 See, for example, Censer, Jack R., Prelude to Power: The Parisian Radical Press, 1789–1791 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976)Google Scholar; and Popkin, Jeremy D., The Right-Wing Press in France, 1792–1800 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980).Google Scholar

9 For an essay that makes the press its central concern, see an interesting article by Clark, Charles E. and Wetherall, Charles, “The Measure of Maturity: The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728–1765,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3d. series, 46:3 (07 1989). I wish to thank Charles Clark for letting me read an advance copy.CrossRefGoogle Scholar