Parliament and the Press, 1689-C.1939

by Schweizer, Karl W.

• ISBN13: 9780748624546
• ISBN10: 0748624546
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-30
• Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr

Summary

Focusing on a period of significant transformation and growth, essays show how positive interaction between parliament and the press enhanced political awareness and populism, altered traditional models of patronage and authority, and expanded the self-reforming capacity of the British state. These themes are then linked to the "public sphere," in which the urban bourgeoisie expanded their political ideology and participation.

Table of Contents

Introduction : parliament and the press : a case for synergy	p. 1
Parliament, the press and foreign policy	p. 9
Shaping the revolution in foreign policy : parliament and the press, 1689-1730	p. 17
Newspapers, politics and public opinion in the later Hanoverian era	p. 32
The dynamic of news in Britain during the American War : the case of Admiral Keppel	p. 49
The Whigs and the press, 1800-50	p. 68
Opposition by journalism? : the socialist and suffragist press and the passage of the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1912	p. 88
Fleet Street colossus : the rise and fall of Northcliffe, 1896-1922	p. 115
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