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Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s: The Laurel of Liberty

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Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s: The Laurel of Liberty - Mee, Jon
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Jon Mee explores the popular democratic movement that emerged in the London of the 1790s in response to the French Revolution. Central to the movement's achievement was the creation of an idea of 'the people' brought into being through print and publicity. Radical clubs rose and fell in the face of the hostile attentions of government. They were sustained by a faith in the press as a form of 'print magic', but confidence in the liberating potential of the printing press was interwoven with hard-headed deliberations over how ...

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Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s: The Laurel of Liberty 2018, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781107590083

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Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s: The Laurel of Liberty 2016, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781107133617

Hardcover