Research Catalog

Title

Origins of democratic culture : printing, petitions, and the public sphere in early-modern England / David Zaret.

Author

Zaret, David.

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000.

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Details

Description

xv, 291 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"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."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Princeton studies in cultural sociology

Uniform Title

Princeton studies in cultural sociology

Subject

• 1600-1714
• Democracy > England > History > 17th century
• Civil society > England > History > 17th century
• Public opinion > England > History > 17th century
• Civil society
• Democracy
• Politics and government
• Public opinion
• Öffentlichkeit
• Druckmedien
• Politik
• Democratie
• Drukkunst
• Publieke opinie
• Democracy > Great Britain > History > 17th century
• Civil society > Great Britain > History > 17th century
• Public opinion > Great Britain > History > 17th century
• Printing > Great Britain > History > 17th century
• Printing > Great Britain > History
• Civil society > Great Britain > History
• Public opinion > Great Britain > History
• Petitions > Great Britain > History
• Political culture > Great Britain > History > 17th century
• Opinion publique > Grande-Bretagne > 17e siècle
• Démocratie > Grande-Bretagne > 17e siècle
• Société civile > Grande-Bretagne > 17e siècle
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 1603-1714
• England
• Great Britain
• Great Britain > Civilization > 17th century
• Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement > 17e siècle

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Theory and History -- Ch. 3. Secrecy and Privilege -- Ch. 4. Traditional Communicative Practice -- Ch. 5. News -- Ch. 6. Printing and the Culture of Print -- Ch. 7. Printing and Politics in the 1640s -- Ch. 8. Petitions -- Ch. 9. Epilogue.

ISBN

• 0691006946
• 9780691006949

LCCN

99025810

OCLC

• ocm41017569
• 41017569
• SCSB-1031933

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library