Eighteenth-Century Periodicals as Agents of Change

Eighteenth-Century Periodicals as Agents of Change
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 358
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ISBN-10 : 9789004293113
ISBN-13 : 9004293116
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Synopsis Eighteenth-Century Periodicals as Agents of Change by : Ellen Krefting

Periodicals were an essential medium during eighteenth-century Enlightenment. The era’s growing number of newspapers and journals made possible a fast and vast dissemination of ideas and debates. Journals were a particularly important means of transmitting ideas, genres, texts, and pieces of information from country to country, from centre to periphery, and from press to subscribers. These journals became agents of change by mediating the increasingly profound and widespread urge to write and read and to engage in political debate. This volume, edited by Ellen Krefting, Aina Nøding and Mona Ringvej, presents contributions that explore this media revolution from a Northern perspective. The chapters throw new light on the reception of Enlightenment ideas and practices in Denmark–Norway, Sweden–Finland, and beyond. Taken together, they make a strong case for the transnational and revolutionary character of the Enlightenment as a whole.

Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650–1750

Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650–1750
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 343
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ISBN-10 : 9789004691940
ISBN-13 : 9004691944
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Synopsis Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650–1750 by : Ann-Marie Hansen

This edited volume explores the development of the European book world between 1650 and 1750, concentrating on changes in publishing strategies, practices of censorship, the circulation of second-hand books and the building of libraries. Its essays discuss this critical, but much neglected period of print history through case studies from Spain, Italy, France, the Holy Roman Empire, Britain and the Netherlands. Ranging from the posthumous publication of Galileo to the regulation of the book auction market, this volume demonstrates that the century between 1650 and 1750 was a transformative period for the history of the printed book.

The World's First Full Press Freedom

The World's First Full Press Freedom
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 566
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ISBN-10 : 9783110771800
ISBN-13 : 3110771802
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Synopsis The World's First Full Press Freedom by : Ulrik Langen

The book charts an extraordinary period in Danish history: the "Press Freedom Period" of 1770-73, in which King Christian 7's physician J.F. Struensee introduced a series of radical enlightenment reforms beginning with the total abolishment of censorship. The book investigates the sudden avalanche of pamphlets and debates, initiating the modern public sphere of Denmark-Norway. Publications show a surprising variety, from serious political, economic, and philosophical treatises over criticism, polemics, ridicule, entertainment, and to spin campaigns, obscenities, libel, threats. A successful coup against Struensee led to his subsequent public execution in Copenhagen, and the latter half of the period saw the gradual smothering of the new public sphere as well as an international pamphlet storm over what was happening in Denmark. Readers all over Europe proved curious to learn about the radical experiment with enlightened absolutism in Denmark; interest was heightened by the involvement of the Danish Queen, the English princess Caroline Matilda to whom Struensee had an intimate relation. The book is a detailed portrayal of a seminal event in the development of the public sphere in Europe.

Artists and Nobility in East-Central Europe

Artists and Nobility in East-Central Europe
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 9783110494778
ISBN-13 : 3110494779
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Artists and Nobility in East-Central Europe by : Halina Beresnevičiūtė-Nosálová

The book analyses the collective career of the artistic profession in Brno and Vilnius and the necessity to copy the behavior of the elites of the Old Regime. The "noble" values, which shaped the artistic careers in the 19th century press, were charity, good taste, cosmopolitism and patriotism. The newspaper discourse disposed potential to integrate and to smuggle novelties by exposing old values.

Travelling Chronicles: News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to the Eighteenth Century

Travelling Chronicles: News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to the Eighteenth Century
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 408
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ISBN-10 : 9789004362871
ISBN-13 : 9004362878
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Travelling Chronicles: News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to the Eighteenth Century by : Siv Gøril Brandtzæg

Travelling Chronicles presents fourteen episodes in the history of news, written by some of the leading scholars in the rapidly developing fields of news and newspaper studies. Ranging across eastern and western Europe and beyond, the chapters look back to the early modern period and into the eighteenth century to consider how the news of the past was gathered and spread, how news outlets gained respect and influence, how news functioned as a business, and also how the historiography of news can be conducted with the resources available to scholars today. Travelling Chronicles offers a timely analysis of early news, at a moment when historical newspaper archives are being widely digitalised and as the truth value of news in our own time undergoes intense scrutiny.

Before the Public Library

Before the Public Library
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 433
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ISBN-10 : 9789004348677
ISBN-13 : 9004348670
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Before the Public Library by : Mark Towsey

Before the Public Library explores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century. Essays by eighteen scholars from a range of disciplines seek to place, for the first time, community libraries within an Atlantic context over a two-century period. Taking a comparative approach, this volume shows that community libraries played an important – and largely unrecognized – role in shaping Atlantic social networks, political and religious movements, scientific and geographic knowledge, and economic enterprise. Libraries had a distinct role to play in shaping modern identities through the acquisition and circulation of specific kinds of texts, the fostering of sociability, and the building of community-based institutions.

The Law of Nations and Natural Law 1625–1800

The Law of Nations and Natural Law 1625–1800
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 347
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ISBN-10 : 9789004384200
ISBN-13 : 9004384200
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Synopsis The Law of Nations and Natural Law 1625–1800 by : Simone Zurbuchen

The Law of Nations and Natural Law 1625-1800 offers innovative studies on the development of the law of nations after the Peace of Westphalia. This period was decisive for the origin and constitution of the discipline which eventually emancipated itself from natural law and became modern international law. A specialist on the law of nations in the Swiss context and on its major figure, Emer de Vattel, Simone Zurbuchen prompted scholars to explore the law of nations in various European contexts. The volume studies little known literature related to the law of nations as an academic discipline, offers novel interpretations of classics in the field, and deconstructs ‘myths’ associated with the law of nations in the Enlightenment.

Private Libraries and their Documentation, 1665–1830

Private Libraries and their Documentation, 1665–1830
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 466
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ISBN-10 : 9789004542969
ISBN-13 : 9004542965
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Private Libraries and their Documentation, 1665–1830 by : Rindert Jagersma

The essays in Private Libraries and their Documentation revolve around the users and contents of early modern private book collections, and around the sources used to document and study these collections. They take the reader from large-scale projects on historical book ownership to micro-level research conducted on individual libraries, and from analyses of specific types of primary sources to general typologies and overviews by period and by region. As a result of its comparative approach and active engagement with questions regarding the nature, selection and accessibility of sources, the volume serves as a guide to sources and resources in different regions as well as to state-of the-art methods and interpretational approaches. Publication of this volume in open access was made possible by the Ammodo KNAW Award 2017 for Humanities.

Ancient Constitutions and Modern Monarchy

Ancient Constitutions and Modern Monarchy
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 331
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ISBN-10 : 9789004394063
ISBN-13 : 9004394060
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Ancient Constitutions and Modern Monarchy by : Håkon Evju

What was the role of historical thought and historical inquiry in debates over reform during the Enlightenment? In Ancient Constitutions and Modern Monarchy, Håkon Evju addresses this issue by considering the case of eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway. He argues that historians contributed crucially to the rethinking of Dano-Norwegian absolutism in the face of a shift towards commercial society. Their vision of an ancient Nordic constitution helped recast the monarchy as moderate and influenced debates over agricultural improvements in Denmark and Norway. In an innovative comparative analysis, Evju demonstrates how notions of a common political past were used differently in the two kingdoms. Yet in both cases, such appeals to tradition were vital in controversies over monarchical reform politics during the Enlightenment.

Micro-geographies of the Western City, c.1750–1900

Micro-geographies of the Western City, c.1750–1900
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 251
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ISBN-10 : 9781000338423
ISBN-13 : 1000338428
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Micro-geographies of the Western City, c.1750–1900 by : Alida Clemente

This book examines the overlapping spaces in modern Western cities to explore the small-scale processes that shaped these cities between c.1750 and 1900. It highlights the ways in which time and space matter, framing individual actions and practices and their impact on larger urban processes. It draws on the original and detailed studies of cities in Europe and North America through a micro-geographical approach to unravel urban practices, experiences and representations at three different scales: the dwelling, the street and the neighbourhood. Part I explores the changing spatiality of housing, examining the complex and contingent relationship between public and private, and commercial and domestic, as well as the relationship between representations and lived experiences. Part II delves into the street as a thoroughfare, connecting the city, but also as a site of contestation over the control and character of urban spaces. Part III draws attention to the neighbourhood as a residential grouping and as a series of spaces connecting flows of people integrating the urban space. Drawing on a range of methodologies, from space syntax and axial analysis to detailed descriptions of individual buildings, this book blends spatial theory and ideas of place with micro-history. With its fresh perspectives on the Western city created through the built environment and the everyday actions of city dwellers, the book will interest historical geographers, urban historians and architects involved in planning of cities across Europe and North America.