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Licensing loyalty printers, patrons, and the state in early modern France
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Licensing loyalty [electronic resource] : printers, patrons, and the state in early modern France / Jane McLeod.
ISBN
0271053631
9780271053639
0271037687 (acid-free paper)
0271037865
9780271037684 (acid-free paper)
9780271037868
Published
University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2011. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (302 p. )
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Summary
"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 publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010-2012 Current Complete Collection Bundle.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 Current Complete Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 History Collection.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 27, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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