Print Markets and Political Dissent - Publishers in Central Europe, 1800-1870

The history of Central Europe's print markets between Napoleon and the era of unification doubles as a political tale. It sheds important new light on political communication and how publishers exposed German-language readers to the Age of Democratic Revolution.

List of contents

• Introduction: The Age of Criticism


• 1: The Business of Print


• 2: The Spectrum of Dissent


• 3: Publishers and Censorship


• 4: Translation and Transfer


• 5: Bookshops and the Literary Underground


• 6: The Limits of Democratic Dissent


• 7: Dissent in the Unification Era, 1848-1874


• Conclusion

About the author

James M. Brophy is the Francis H. Squire Professor of History at the University of Delaware. He received his BA from Vassar College, trained at Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen, Germany, and took his PhD in modern European history at Indiana University. He is the author of Popular Culture and the Public Sphere in the Rhineland, 1800-1850 (2007), Capitalism, Railroads, and Politics in Prussia, 1830-1870 (1998), and over three dozen essays in journals and books. He is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including those from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Academy in Berlin. He is the former president of the Central European History Society and currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Modern History as well as on the academic advisory council of the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe.

Summary

The history of Central Europe's print markets between Napoleon and the era of unification doubles as a political tale. It sheds important new light on political communication and how publishers exposed German-language readers to the Age of Democratic Revolution.

Additional text

James Brophy's magisterial Print Markets and Political Dissent in Central Europe illuminates everything it touches, bringing the world of printing houses, bookshops and struggling writers to enthralling life and exposing the tensions between commerce, dissent and censorship that shaped the 19th-century public sphere.

Product details

• Authors: James M. Brophy, James M. (Francis H. Squire Professor of H Brophy, Brophy James M.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.06.2024
• EAN: 9780198845720
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884572-0
• No. of pages: 480
• Series: Oxford Studies in Modern European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Social and cultural history, Publishing industry and journalism, General studies and General knowledge, General studies