Paper Bullets: Print and Kingship Under Charles II

By Harold Weber

" The calculated use of media by those in power is a phenomenon dating back at least to the seventeenth century, as Harold Weber demonstrates in this illuminating study of the relation of print culture to kingship under England's Charles II. Seventeenth-century London witnessed an enormous expansion of the print trade, and with this expansion came a revolutionary change in the relation between political authority-especially the monarchy-and the printed word. Weber argues that Charles' reign was

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813119294
• ISBN13: 9780813119298
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher