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Politicians and Pamphleteers - Propaganda During the English Civil Wars and Interregnum (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Politicians and Pamphleteers - Propaganda During the English Civil Wars and Interregnum (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The English civil wars radically altered many aspects of
mid-seventeenth century life, simultaneously creating a period of
intense uncertainty and unheralded opportunity. Nowhere was this
more apparent than in the printing and publishing industry, which
between 1640 and 1660 produced a vast number of tracts and
pamphlets on a bewildering variety of subjects. Many of these where
of a highly political nature, the publication of which would have
been unthinkable just a few years before. Whilst scholars have long
recognised the importance of these publications, and have studied
in depth what was written in them, much less work has been done on
why they were produced. In this book Dr Peacey first highlights the
different dynamics at work in the conception, publication and
distribution of polemical works, and then pulls the strands
together to study them against the wider political context. In so
doing he provides a more complete understanding of the relationship
between political events and literary and intellectual prose in an
era of unrest and upheaval. By incorporating into the political
history of the period some of the approaches utilized by scholars
of book history, this study reveals the heightened importance of
print in both the lives of members of the political nation and the
minds of the political elite in the civil wars and Interregnum.
Furthermore, it demonstrates both the existence and prevalence of
print propaganda with which politicians became associated, and
traces the processes by which it came to be produced, the means of
detecting its existence, the ways in which politicians involved
themselves in its production, the uses to which it was put, and the
relationships between politicians and propagandists.
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