Licensing Loyalty - Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France

About the author

Jane McLeod is Associate Professor of History at Brock University in Ontario, Canada.

Summary

Explores the evolution of the idea that the rise of print culture was a threat to the royal government of eighteenth-century France. Argues that French printers did much to foster this view as they negotiated a place in the expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the state.

Product details

• Authors: Jane (Associate Professor McLeod, McLeod Jane
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2011
• EAN: 9780271037868
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03786-8
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Penn State Series in the History of the Book
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; France, European History, HISTORY / Europe / France, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, Publishing industry & book trade, French Revolution