{"product_id":"news-and-politics-in-the-age-of-revolution-9781501700712","title":"News and Politics in the Age of Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the center of this book stands the story of a great but forgotten newspaper: the \u003ci\u003eGazette de Leyde\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Jean Luzac from 1772 to 1798. A French-language biweekly newspaper published in the Dutch city of Leiden from 1677 to 1811, the Gazette de Leyde was regarded as the international newspaper of record, occupying the cultural niche filled today by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/i\u003e.Jeremy D. Popkin reconstructs the \u003ci\u003eGazette\u003c\/i\u003e''s history, providing a comprehensive picture of the environment that produced it, how it gathered and printed its reports, its relationship with its readers, and the way it depicted the great events of three critical decades. In rich detail he shows that absolutist regimes often cooperated with the \u003ci\u003eGazette\u003c\/i\u003e''s editors, providing information and condoning its publication in open violation of their own censorship regimes.He also examines the Dutch context which fostered both the freedom that made the paper''s publication possib\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNews and Politics in the Age of Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e is a first-class study of the crucially important periodical \u003ci\u003eGazette de Leyde\u003c\/i\u003e and of its extraordinary editor Jean Luzac, who provided through its pages some of the best, most astutely analytical political journalism of the late eighteenth century. Jeremy D. Popkin argues persuasively that the \u003ci\u003eGazette de Leyde\u003c\/i\u003e maintained a special kind of superiority even after the revolution brought freedom of the press and hence a huge proliferation of papers onto the French market. Although the paper made no claims to represent public opinion, it certainly did its share to shape it and thus to guide events.\u003c\/p\u003e * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 'political culture' of the ancien régime is a subject that is increasingly attracting the attention of historians. Popkin's contribution to it is one they cannot afford to miss.\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of Modern History *","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409318453591,"sku":"9781501700712","price":27.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501700712.jpg?v=1730506401","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/news-and-politics-in-the-age-of-revolution-9781501700712","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}