Licensing Loyalty: Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France

by Jane McLeod

Book Overview

In Licensing Loyalty, historian Jane McLeod explores the evolution of the idea that the royal government of eighteenth-century France had much to fear from the rise of print culture. She argues that early modern French printers helped foster this view as they struggled to negotiate a place in the expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the French state. Printers in the provinces and in Paris relentlessly lobbied the government, hoping to convince...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271037865
• ISBN13: 9780271037868
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"