Print Markets And Political Dissent

Author : James M. Brophy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192584502

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Print Markets and Political Dissent by James M. Brophy Pdf

Moving book history in a new direction, this study examines publishers as brokers of Central Europe's political public sphere. They created international print markets, translated new texts, launched new journals, supported outspoken authors, and experimented with popular formats. Most of all, they contested censorship with finesse and resolve, thereby undermining the aim of Prussia and Austria to criminalize democratic thought. By packaging dissent through popular media, publishers cultivated broad readerships, promoted political literacy, and refashioned citizenship ideals. As political actors, intellectual midwives, and cultural mediators, publishers speak to a broad range of scholarly interests. Their outsize personalities, their entrepreneurial zeal, and their publishing achievements portray how print markets shaped the political world. The narrow perimeters of political communication in the late-absolutist states of Prussia and Austria curtailed the open market of ideas. The publishing industry contested this information order, working both within and outside legal parameters to create a modern public sphere. Their expansion of print markets, their cat-and-mouse game with censors, and their ingenuity in packaging political commentary sheds light on the production and reception of dissent. Against the backdrop of censorship and police surveillance, the successes and failures of these citizens of print tell us much about nineteenth-century civil society and Central Europe's tortuous pathway to political modernization. Cutting across a range of disciplines, this study will engage social and political historians as well as scholars of publishing, literary criticism, cultural studies, translation, and the public sphere. The history of Central Europe's print markets between Napoleon and the era of unification doubles as a political tale. It sheds important new light on political communication and how publishers exposed German-language readers to the Age of Democratic Revolution.

Author : James M. Brophy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198845720

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Print Markets and Political Dissent in Central Europe by James M. Brophy Pdf

Moving book history in a new direction, this study examines publishers as brokers of Central Europe's political public sphere. They created international print markets, translated new texts, launched new journals, supported outspoken authors, and experimented with popular formats. Most of all, they contested censorship with finesse and resolve, thereby undermining the aim of Prussia and Austria to criminalize democratic thought. By packaging dissent through popular media, publishers cultivated broad readerships, promoted political literacy, and refashioned citizenship ideals. As political actors, intellectual midwives, and cultural mediators, publishers speak to a broad range of scholarly interests. Their outsize personalities, their entrepreneurial zeal, and their publishing achievements portray how print markets shaped the political world.The narrow perimeters of political communication in the late-absolutist states of Prussia and Austria curtailed the open market of ideas. The publishing industry contested this information order, working both within and outside legal parameters to create a modern public sphere. Their expansion of print markets, their cat-and-mouse game with censors, and their ingenuity in packaging political commentary sheds light on the production and reception of dissent. Against the backdrop of censorship and police surveillance, the successes and failures of these citizens of print tell us much about nineteenth-century civil society and Central Europe's tortuous pathway to political modernization. Cutting across a range of disciplines, this study will engage social and political historians as well as scholars of publishing, literary criticism, cultural studies, translation, and the public sphere. The history of Central Europe's print markets between Napoleon and the era of unification doubles as a political tale. It sheds important new light on political communication and how publishers exposed German-language readers to the Age of Democratic Revolution.

Author : Josiah Ober
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691089812

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Political Dissent in Democratic Athens by Josiah Ober Pdf

Since it was no longer self-evident that "better men" meant "better government," critics of democracy sought new arguments to explain the relationship among politics, ethics, and morality.

Author : Piotr Wciślik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000417920

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Dissident Legacies of Samizdat Social Media Activism by Piotr Wciślik Pdf

This book tells the story of the dissident imaginary of samizdat activists, the political culture they created, and the pivotal role that culture had in sustaining the resilience of the oppositional movement in Poland between 1976 and 1990. This unlicensed print culture has been seen as one of the most emblematic social worlds of dissent. Since the Cold War, the audacity of harnessing obsolete print technology known as samizdat to break the modern monopoly of information of the party-state has fascinated many, yet this book looks beyond the Cold War frame to reappraise its historical novelty and significance. What made that culture resilient and rewarding, this book argues, was the correspondence between certain set of ideas and media practices: namely, the form of samizdat social media, which both embodied and projected the prefigurative philosophy of political action, asserting that small forms of collective agency can have a transformative effect on public life here and now, and are uniquely capable of achieving a democratic new beginning. This prefigurative vision of the transition from communism had a fundamental impact on the broader oppositional movement. Yet, while both the rise of Solidarity and the breakthrough of 1989 seemed to do justice to that vision, both pivotal moments found samizdat social media activists making history that was not to their liking. Back in the day, their estrangement was overshadowed by the main axis of contention between the society and the state. Foregrounding the internal controversies they protagonized, this book adds nuance to our understanding of the broader legacy of dissent and its relevance for the networked protests of today.

Author : Heike Schaefer,Alexander Starre
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030225452

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The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture by Heike Schaefer,Alexander Starre Pdf

This essay collection explores the cultural functions the printed book performs in the digital age. It examines how the use of and attitude toward the book form have changed in light of the digital transformation of American media culture. Situated at the crossroads of American studies, literary studies, book studies, and media studies, these essays show that a sustained focus on the medial and material formats of literary communication significantly expands our accustomed ways of doing cultural studies. Addressing the changing roles of authors, publishers, and readers while covering multiple bookish formats such as artists’ books, bestselling novels, experimental fiction, and zines, this interdisciplinary volume introduces readers to current transatlantic conversations on the history and future of the printed book.

Author : Michael Broers,Ambrogio A. Caiani,Stephen Bann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786726537

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A History of the European Restorations by Michael Broers,Ambrogio A. Caiani,Stephen Bann Pdf

The second volume shines a light on the cultural and social changes that took place during the epoch of European Restorations, when the death of the Napoleonic empire existed as a crucial moment for contemporaries. Expanding the transnational approach of Volume I, the chapters focus on the transmutation of ordinary experiences of war into folklore and popular culture, the emergence of grassroots radical politics and conspiracies on the Left and Right, and the relationship between literacy and religion, with new cases included from Spain, Norway and Russia. A wide-ranging and impressive work, this book completes a collection on the history of the European Restorations.

Author : Alasdair Roberts
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801470035

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The End of Protest by Alasdair Roberts Pdf

The United States has just gone through the worst economic crisis in a generation. Why wasn’t there more protest, as there was in other countries? During the United States’ last great era of free-market policies, before World War II, economic crises were always accompanied by unrest. "The history of capitalism," the economist Joseph Schumpeter warned in 1942, "is studded with violent bursts and catastrophes." In The End of Protest, Alasdair Roberts explains how, in the modern age, governments learned to unleash market forces while also avoiding protest about the market’s failures. Roberts argues that in the last three decades, the two countries that led the free-market revolution—the United States and Britain—have invented new strategies for dealing with unrest over free market policies. The organizing capacity of unions has been undermined so that it is harder to mobilize discontent. The mobilizing potential of new information technologies has also been checked. Police forces are bigger and better equipped than ever before. And technocrats in central banks have been given unprecedented power to avoid full-scale economic calamities. Tracing the histories of economic unrest in the United States and Great Britain from the nineteenth century to the present, The End of Protest shows that governments have always been preoccupied with the task of controlling dissent over free market policies. But today’s methods pose a new threat to democratic values. For the moment, advocates of free-market capitalism have found ways of controlling discontent, but the continued effectiveness of these strategies is by no means certain.

Author : Matthew Pethers,Daniel Diez Couch
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781684485093

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The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art by Matthew Pethers,Daniel Diez Couch Pdf

The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practices—from diaries and poetry, to almanacs and commonplace books, to sermons and lists, to Indigenous ruins and other material shards and fragments—often overlooked by critics in a scholarly privileging of the “whole.” Contributors from literary studies, book history, and visual culture discuss a host of canonical and non-canonical figures, from Edward Taylor and Washington Irving to Mary Rowlandson and Sarah Kemble Knight, offering insight into the many intellectual, ideological, and material variations of “form” that populated the early American cultural landscape. As these essays reveal, the casting of the fragmentary as aesthetically eccentric or incomplete was a way of reckoning with concerns about the related fragmentation of nation, society, and self. For a contemporary audience, they offer new ways to think about the inevitable gaps and absences in our cultural and historical archive.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Monetary policy
ISBN : PURD:32754066846910

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Monetary Policy Report--1983 Together with Additional, Separate, Minority, and Dissenting Views by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs Pdf

Author : Raymond June
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3501121

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From Dissident Truth to Market Transparency by Raymond June Pdf

Author : Jane Roberts,David Elliott,Trevor Houghton
Publisher : Belhaven
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015022002516

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Privatising Electricity by Jane Roberts,David Elliott,Trevor Houghton Pdf

Author : Anne C. Leer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Communication, International
ISBN : IND:30000052094517

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Information Transaction in the Global Information Market by Anne C. Leer Pdf

Author : Alexander Zevin
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788739627

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Liberalism at Large by Alexander Zevin Pdf

The path-breaking history of modern liberalism told through the pages of one of its most zealous supporters In this landmark book, Alexander Zevin looks at the development of modern liberalism by examining the long history of the Economist newspaper, which, since 1843, has been the most tireless—and internationally influential—champion of the liberal cause anywhere in the world. But what exactly is liberalism, and how has its message evolved? Liberalism at Large examines a political ideology on the move as it confronts the challenges that classical doctrine left unresolved: the rise of democracy, the expansion of empire, the ascendancy of high finance. Contact with such momentous forces was never going to leave the proponents of liberal values unchanged. Zevin holds a mirror to the politics—and personalities—of Economist editors past and present, from Victorian banker-essayists James Wilson and Walter Bagehot to latter-day eminences Bill Emmott and Zanny Minton Beddoes. Today, neither economic crisis at home nor permanent warfare abroad has dimmed the Economist’s belief in unfettered markets, limited government, and a free hand for the West. Confidante to the powerful, emissary for the financial sector, portal onto international affairs, the bestselling newsweekly shapes the world its readers—as well as everyone else—inhabit. This is the first critical biography of one of the architects of a liberal world order now under increasing strain.

Author : David Bergland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Libertarianism
ISBN : PSU:000033586694

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Libertarianism in One Lesson by David Bergland Pdf

Author : John Chamberlain
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015055053568

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A Life with the Printed Word by John Chamberlain Pdf