Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800)
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Word Count
115,500 words, Guess
Page Count
462 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL34967278M
- ISBN-139789004448889
- OCLC Control Number1237348112
- Library of Congress Control Number2021013315
Classifications
- LCCZ124.P8625 2021
Description
"Print, in the early modern period, could make or break power. This volume addresses one of the most urgent and topical questions in early modern history: how did European authorities use a new medium with such tremendous potential? The eighteen contributors develop new perspectives on the relationship between the rise of print and the changing relationships between subjects and rulers by analysing print's role in early modern bureaucracy, the techniques of printed propaganda, genres and strategies of state communication. While print is often still thought of as an emancipating and destabilizing force of change in early modern societies, the resulting picture shows how instrumental print was in strengthening existing power structures"--
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