ABSTRACT
Politics and the Rise of the Press compares the rise of the newspaper press in Britain and France, and assesses how it influenced political life and political culture. From its social, economic and political sources, to its importance for the middling ranks in eighteenth-century British society, and its transformation after the French revolution. This detailed, comparative account, which also contains considerable original research on the early Scottish press, will be of value to all students of French and British history of the period.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |3 pages
Introduction
chapter |17 pages
News Serials, Newspapers and their Readers in Britain, 1620–1800
chapter |17 pages
The Press and Politics in Britain
From the Glorious Revolution to the French Revolution