Licensing Loyalty : Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France /

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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"--Provided by publi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McLeod, Jane
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011.
Series:Penn State series in the history of the book.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Censorship > France > History.
Book industries and trade > Political aspects > France > History.
Printers > France > Social conditions.
Printers > Certification > France > History.
Printing > France > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The early history of printers in provincial France, 1470-1660
  • The vicissitudes of a royal decree : enforcing the October 1667 Order in Council regulating printers in the provinces
  • The royal council takes control : the 1701 inquiry and the Bureau de la Librairie
  • The purges : the enforcement of printer quotas in the provinces after 1704
  • Arguments offered by printers in petitions for licences, 1667/1789
  • Patronage and bureaucracy intersect : five case studies in the reign of Louis XVI
  • Behind the rhetoric : the social position and politics of provincial printers, 1750/1789
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A. Printers' wealth in the eighteenth century
  • Appendix B. Some licensed provincial printers involved in the clandestine book trade, 1750-89, by town.

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