Press, Politics and the Public Sphere in Europe and North America, 1760–1820

by Edited by Hannah Barker , Simon Burrows

• ISBN13: 9780521662079
• ISBN10: 0521662079
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Newspapers are a vital component of print and political cultures, and as such they informed as well as documented the social and political upheavals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. However, despite the huge influence attributed to them by both contemporary observers and historians, our knowledge of the nature and function of the newspaper press itself remains scant. Press, Politics and the Public Sphere in Europe and North America, c. 1760-1820 aims to fill this gap by examining aspects of the press in several European countries and America, both individually and comparatively, during this particularly turbulent and important period. Contributors explore the relationship between newspapers and social change, specifically in the context of the part played by the press in the political upheavals of the time. The collection examines the relationship between newspapers and public opinion, and attempts to define their place in the emergence of a 'public sphere'.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(22)
Hannah Barker
Simon Burrows
The cosmopolitan press, 1760-1815	23	(25)
Simon Burrows
The Netherlands, 1750-1813	48	(21)
Nicolaas Van Sas
Germany, 1760-1815	69	(24)
Eckhart Hellmuth
Wolfgang Piereth
England, 1760-1815	93	(20)
Hannah Barker
Ireland, 1760-1820	113	(27)
Douglas Simes
America, 1750-1820	140	(19)
David Copeland
France, 1750-89	159	(23)
Jack Censer
The French revolutionary press	182	(19)
Hugh Gough
Italy, 1760-1815	201	(23)
Maurizio Isabella
Russia, 1790-1830	224	(24)
Miranda Beaven Remnek
Index	248