附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-255) and index.
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION: THE PERIODICAL PRESS; THE POLITICAL PRESS; THE AFFICHES; THE LITERARY; PHILOSOPHICAL PRESS; EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY JOURNALISM AND ITS PERSONNEL; THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND THE PERIODICAL; THE READERSHIP; CONCLUSION; Publication estimates for periodicals that existed during the years 1745 86; Sampling the press 1745 36; Notes; Index.
摘要:Jack Censer's achievement in this volume is to marshal a vast literature in order to provide a coherent and original interpretation of the role of the French press in the dissemimation of social and political ideas in the pre-Revolution years.