Licensing Loyalty Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France |
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| Author:
| McLeod, Jane |
| Series title: | Penn State Series in the History of the Book Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-271-03786-8 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2011 |
| Publisher: | Pennsylvania State University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $33.95 |
Book Description:
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Explores the evolution of the idea that the rise of print culture was a threat to the royal government of eighteenth-century France. Argues that French printers did much to foster this view as they negotiated a place in the expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the state.
Explores the evolution of the idea that the rise of print culture was a threat to the royal government of eighteenth-century France. Argues that French printers did much to foster this view as they negotiated a place in the expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the state.