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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover Page
  • Half-title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication Page
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Chapter One: Introduction
  • Chapter Two: Theory and History
  • Theories of the Early Public Sphere
  • Historical Revisionism
  • The Paradox of Innovation
  • Chapter Three: Secrecy and Privilege
  • Principle
  • Contradictions between Secrecy Norms and Political Practice
  • Chapter Four: Traditional Communicative Practice
  • Center to Periphery
  • Periphery to Center
  • Grievances and Petitions
  • Chapter Five: News
  • Oral News: Rumors and Ballads
  • Scribal News
  • Chapter Six: 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
  • Chapter Seven: Printing and Politics in the 1640s
  • Imposition of Dialogic Order on Conflict
  • Printed News
  • Printed Political Texts
  • Invoking Public Opinion
  • Chapter Eight: 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
  • Chapter Nine: Epilogue
  • Deism, Science, and Opinion
  • Contemporary Implications
  • Index