Cambridge University Press - Press, Politics & the Public Sphere in Europe & North America - Hardcover Book

Cambridge University Press

Press, Politics and the Public Sphere in Europe and North America, 17601820Author(s): Hannah Barker, Simon Burrows\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521662079, 978-0521662079\nSynopsis\nNewspapers 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, [tel] 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,.