News and Politics in the Age of Revolution: Jean Luzac's "Gazette de Leyde"

by Jeremy D. Popkin

Overview

Jeremy D. Popkin's book is the first comprehensive examination of the European news industry during the era of the American and French Revolutions. He focuses on the Gazette de Leyde, the period's newspaper of record, and constructs a detailed picture of the'media market'of which it was a part.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501700712
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	11/25/2015
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jeremy D. Popkin holds the William T. Bryan Chair of History at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of many books, including You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery and A Short History of the French Revolution.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Abbreviations xiii

1 News and European Culture in the Eighteenth Century 1

2 The Environments of an Eighteenth-Century Newspaper 24

3 The Eighteenth-Century European Press 46

4 Making News in the Eighteenth Century 68

5 Producing a Newspaper in the Eighteenth Century 99

6 The Gazette de Leyde's Readership 120

7 The Gazette de Leyde and the Crises of the 1770s 137

8 Engagement and Disillusionment: Jean Luzac and the Gazette de Leyde from 1782 to 1787 158

9 The Challenge of the French Revolution 188

10 An Old Regime Gazette in the Revolutionary Maelstrom 215

11 The Gazette de Leyde, Politics, and Journalism 249

Sources and Bibliography 267

Index 287

Editorial Reviews

News and Politics in the Age of Revolution is a first-class study of the crucially important periodical Gazette de Leyde 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 Gazette de Leyde 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.

-- "American Historical Review"

The '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.

-- "Journal of Modern History"

From the Publisher

News and Politics in the Age of Revolution is a first-class study of the crucially important periodical Gazette de Leyde 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 Gazette de Leyde 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.

American Historical Review

The '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.

Journal of Modern History