1st Edition

Politics and the Rise of the Press Britain and France 1620-1800

By Bob Harris Copyright 1996
    144 Pages
    by Routledge

    144 Pages
    by Routledge

    Politics and the Rise of the Press compares the rise of the newspaper press in Britain and France, and assesses how it influenced political life and political culture. From its social, economic and political sources, to its importance for the middling ranks in eighteenth-century British society, and its transformation after the French revolution. This detailed, comparative account, which also contains considerable original research on the early Scottish press, will be of value to all students of French and British history of the period.

    Introduction; Chapter 1 News Serials, Newspapers and their Readers in Britain, 1620–1800; Chapter 2 The Press and Politics in Britain; Chapter 3 The Press in Eighteenth-Century France; Chapter 4 The Press, Society and Political Culture;

    Biography

    Bob Harris