Conflict and Enlightenment - Print and Political Culture in Europe, 16351795

This novel study of political culture in Enlightenment Europe analyses print, public opinion and the transnational dissemination of texts.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Munck, Thomas (University of Glasgow) Munck, Munck Thomas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9780521878074
• ISBN: 978-0-521-87807-4
• No. of pages: 378
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, C 1600 To C 1700, Later 17th century c 1650 to c 1699