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Conflict and enlightenment : print and political culture in Europe, 1635-1795
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ISBN: 9780521878074 9780521701808 9781139021289 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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"In the early modern period, printing was the only means of disseminating a text or message reliably to a large number of people. Print could serve all kinds of purposes, ranging from religious education to scientific debate, from state propaganda to open political subversion, from proclamations and the reporting of news to the provision of entertaining fictional reading. But the printing industry was also one of the most complex, labour-intensive and investment-dependent sectors of the early modern economy, involving a huge range of very specialised and skilled manual labour as well as a range of associated trades (see Figure 1). It required considerable infrastructure, management and marketing skills, and was subject to severe market fluctuations with high risks. These conflicting pressures were not matched by any substantial technological change in the printing industry from the middle of the fifteenth century right through to the Napoleonic period. So despite gaining a solid footing in the economies of many large prosperous cities, the increase in the use of print for particular purposes was unsteady, and its geographic spread surprisingly uneven"


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The books that made the European Enlightenment : a history in 12 case studies
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ISBN: 1350277665 1350277673 9781350277663 9781350277687 1350277681 9781350277670 9781350277656 9781350277649 Year: 2022 Publisher: London Bloomsbury

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In contrast to traditional Enlightenment studies that focus solely on authors and ideas, Gary Kates' employs a literary lens to offer a wholly original history of the period in Europe from 1699 to 1780. Each chapter is a biography of a book which tells the story of the text from its inception through to the revolutionary era, with wider aspects of the Enlightenment era being revealed through the narrative of the book's publication and reception. Here, Kates joins new approaches to book history with more traditional intellectual history by treating authors, publishers, and readers in a balanced fashion throughout. Using a unique database of 18th-century editions representing 5,000 titles, the book looks at the multifaceted significance of bestsellers from the time. It analyses key works by Voltaire, Adam Smith, Madame de Graffigny, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume and champions the importance of a crucial innovation of the age: the rise of the 'erudite blockbuster', which for the first time in European history, helped to popularize political theory among a large portion of the middling classes. Kates also highlights how, when, and why some of these books were read in the European colonies, as well as incorporating the responses of both ordinary men and women as part of the reception histories that are so integral to the volume.

From Erasmus to Tolstoy : the peace literature of four centuries ; Jacob ter Meulen's Bibliographies of the peace movement before 1899
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ISBN: 0313268274 Year: 1990 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Greenwood


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Negotiating conflict and controversy in the early modern book world
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ISBN: 9789004401259 9004401253 9789004402522 9004402527 Year: 2019 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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The early modern European book world was confronted with many crises and controversies. Some conflicts were of such monumental scale that they wrought significant reconfigurations of the trade. Others were more quotidian in nature – evidence of the intensely competitive and at times predatory nature of the industry. How publishing negotiated and responded to the various crises, conflicts and disputes of the age is explored by the rich and varied interdisciplinary contributions in this volume. To succeed in the business of books, printers and publishers needed to seize the advantage in the often complex environments in which they operated. What was required was determination, resilience, and inventiveness, even in the most challenging of times.

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Book industries and trade --- Printing --- Early printed books --- 655.15 --- 339 --- 316.47 --- 094:32 --- 098.1 --- 316.48 --- 316.48 Sociale conflicten --- Sociale conflicten --- 098.1 Verboden boeken --- Verboden boeken --- 094:32 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Politiek. Staatskunde. Staatswetenschappen --(algemeen) --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Politiek. Staatskunde. Staatswetenschappen --(algemeen) --- Bibliography --- Books --- Printing, Practical --- Typography --- Graphic arts --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- 316.47 Sociale relaties --(sociologie) --- Sociale relaties --(sociologie) --- 339 Handel. Internationale economische betrekkingen. Wereldeconomie --binnenlandse als buitenlandse handel; zie ook {339.3} en {339.5} --- Handel. Internationale economische betrekkingen. Wereldeconomie --binnenlandse als buitenlandse handel; zie ook {339.3} en {339.5} --- 655.15 Drukkerij en verwante ondernemingen: organisatie; gebruiken; beroepsvereniging --- 655.15 Printing houses, presses and related businesses --- Drukkerij en verwante ondernemingen: organisatie; gebruiken; beroepsvereniging --- Printing houses, presses and related businesses --- History --- Political aspects&delete& --- Social aspects&delete& --- Book history --- book history --- anno 1500-1799 --- Europe --- E-books --- Industria del libro --- History. --- Political aspects --- Social aspects


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The politics of print during the French wars of religion : literature and history in an age of "nothing said too soon"
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ISBN: 9789004440814 9789004440807 900444081X 9004440801 Year: 2021 Publisher: Leiden Brill Rodopi

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In The Politics of Print During the French Wars of Religion, Gregory Haake examines how, in late sixteenth-century France, authors and publishers used the new medium of the printed text to control the terms of public discourse and determine history, or at least their narrative of it. The creativity of the Renaissance ushered in new instability of discourse and a decline of traditional centres of authority. Gregory Haake shows that poets, authors, printers, and polemicists - including historians, such as Simon Goulart; the great poets of the time, such as Pierre de Ronsard or Agrippa d'Aubigné; or anonymous authors of polemical texts - rushed in to take advantage of discursive uncertainty to discredit their enemies and shape the meaning of history as it unfolded.

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094 <44> --- 094 "15" --- 094:32 --- 094:944 --- 655 <09> --- French literature --- Printing --- Authors and publishers --- Literature and society --- Renaissance --- 094:944 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Geschiedenis van Frankrijk --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Geschiedenis van Frankrijk --- 094:32 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Politiek. Staatskunde. Staatswetenschappen --(algemeen) --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Politiek. Staatskunde. Staatswetenschappen --(algemeen) --- 094 "15" Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--16e eeuw. Periode 1500-1599 --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--16e eeuw. Periode 1500-1599 --- 094 <44> Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Frankrijk --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Frankrijk --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Author and publisher --- Publishers and authors --- Publishing contracts --- Authorship --- Contracts --- Book proposals --- Copyright --- Literary agents --- Grafische industrie. Drukkerij. Uitgeverij. Boekhandel-- algemeen--Geschiedenis van --- History and criticism --- History --- Social aspects --- Law and legislation --- France --- Bro-C'hall --- Fa-kuo --- Fa-lan-hsi --- Faguo --- Falanxi --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- Faransā --- Farānsah --- França --- Francia (Republic) --- Francija --- Francja --- Francland --- Francuska --- Franis --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Frankrig --- Frankrijk --- Frankrike --- Frankryk --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Franse Republiek --- Frant︠s︡ --- Frant︠s︡ Uls --- Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Frantsyi︠a︡ --- Franza --- French Republic --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- Frenska republika --- Furansu --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Gallia --- Gallia (Republic) --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- Hyãsia --- Parancis --- Peurancih --- Phransiya --- Pransiya --- Pransya --- Prantsusmaa --- Pʻŭrangsŭ --- Ranska --- República Francesa --- Republica Franzesa --- Republika Francuska --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- Republikang Pranses --- République française --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Γαλλική Δημοκρατία --- Γαλλία --- Франц --- Франц Улс --- Французская Рэспубліка --- Францыя --- Франция --- Френска република --- פראנקרייך --- צרפת --- רפובליקה הצרפתית --- فرانسه --- فرنسا --- フランス --- フランス共和国 --- 法国 --- 法蘭西 --- 法蘭西共和國 --- 프랑스 --- France (Provisional government, 1944-1946) --- Literature and the war. --- E-books --- Book history --- Graphics industry --- anno 1500-1599 --- History and criticism.

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