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The World's First Full Press Freedom - The Radical Experiment of Denmark-Norway 1770-1773 (Hardcover)
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The World's First Full Press Freedom - The Radical Experiment of Denmark-Norway 1770-1773 (Hardcover)
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The book charts an extraordinary period in Danish history: the
"Press Freedom Period" of 1770-73, in which King Christian 7's
physician J.F. Struensee introduced a series of radical
enlightenment reforms beginning with the total abolishment of
censorship. The book investigates the sudden avalanche of pamphlets
and debates, initiating the modern public sphere of Denmark-Norway.
Publications show a surprising variety, from serious political,
economic, and philosophical treatises over criticism, polemics,
ridicule, entertainment, and to spin campaigns, obscenities, libel,
threats. A successful coup against Struensee led to his subsequent
public execution in Copenhagen, and the latter half of the period
saw the gradual smothering of the new public sphere as well as an
international pamphlet storm over what was happening in Denmark.
Readers all over Europe proved curious to learn about the radical
experiment with enlightened absolutism in Denmark; interest was
heightened by the involvement of the Danish Queen, the English
princess Caroline Matilda to whom Struensee had an intimate
relation. The book is a detailed portrayal of a seminal event in
the development of the public sphere in Europe.
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