Origins of Democratic Culture Printing, Petitions, and the Public Sphere in Early-Modern England

Name: Origins of Democratic Culture Printing, Petitions, and the Public Sphere in Early-Modern England
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ISBN: 9780691006949

ISBN-10: 0691006946

ISBN-13: 9780691006949

Edition: 2000

Authors: David Zaret

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This innovative work of historical sociology locates the origins of modern democratic discourse in the emergent culture of printing in early modern England. For David Zaret, the key to the rise of a democratic public sphere was the impact of this culture of printing on the secrecy and privilege that shrouded political decisions in seventeenth-century England. Zaret explores the unanticipated liberating effects of printing and printed communication in transforming the world of political secrecy into a culture of open discourse and eventually a politics of public opinion. Contrary to those who locate the origins of the public sphere in the philosophical tracts of the French Enlightenment,…

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List price: $130.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1/17/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.61" wide x 9.41" long x 1.05" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations





Introduction





Theory and History


Theories of the Early Public Sphere


Historical Revisionism


The Paradox of Innovation





Secrecy and Privilege


Principle


Contradictions between Secrecy Norms and Political Practice





Traditional Communicative Practice


Center to Periphery


Periphery to Center


Grievances and Petitions





News


Oral News: Rumors and Ballads


Scribal News





Printing and the Culture of Print


Presses and Printers


Legal and Political Issues


Authors and Sellers


Popular Literacy and Reading


Illicit Books


Appeals to Public Opinion in Religion to 1640





Printing and Politics in the 1640s


Imposition of Dialogic Order on Conflict


Printed News


Printed Political Texts


Invoking Public Opinion





Petitions


Petitions as Political Propaganda


Petitions as Indicators of Opinion in the Periphery


Petitions and Printing


The Paradox of Innovation in Petitioning


The Authority of Opinion


Toward Liberal Democracy





Epilogue


Deism, Science, and Opinion


Contemporary Implications


Index