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Modern Italian historiography has undergone a substantial revision
in the last quarter of a century. From an almost exclusive focus on
the process of nation-building, the attention of historians has
shifted. The most innovative research is now devoted to assessing
to what extent the cosmopolitan attitude that was evident in the
late eighteenth century morphed, but did not disappear, in the
ensuing two centuries. The essays in this volume make the case that
the age of nations had a profound impact on Italian history and
contributed to the creation of an Italian identity within the
framework of well-functioning imperial and global networks. They
also acknowledge that the process of national individualization
carried with it a variety of aspects that reconnected Italian
history to the foreign cultures that were undergoing constant
self-fashioning. Cosmopolitan Italy in the Age of Nations:
Transnational Visions from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century
will be of interest to scholars throughout the world and
intellectual and transnational historians.
Modern Italian historiography has undergone a substantial revision
in the last quarter of a century. From an almost exclusive focus on
the process of nation-building, the attention of historians has
shifted. The most innovative research is now devoted to assessing
to what extent the cosmopolitan attitude that was evident in the
late eighteenth century morphed, but did not disappear, in the
ensuing two centuries. The essays in this volume make the case that
the age of nations had a profound impact on Italian history and
contributed to the creation of an Italian identity within the
framework of well-functioning imperial and global networks. They
also acknowledge that the process of national individualization
carried with it a variety of aspects that reconnected Italian
history to the foreign cultures that were undergoing constant
self-fashioning. Cosmopolitan Italy in the Age of Nations:
Transnational Visions from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century
will be of interest to scholars throughout the world and
intellectual and transnational historians.
Tracking the relationship between the theory of press control and
the realities of practicing daily press censorship prior to
publication, this volume on the suppression of dissent in early
modern Europe tackles a topic with many elusive and
under-researched characteristics. Pre-publication censorship was
common in absolutist regimes in Catholic and Protestant countries
alike, but how effective it was in practice remains open to debate.
The Netherlands and England, where critical content segued into
outright lampoonery, were unusual for hard-wired press freedoms
that arose, respectively, from a highly competitive publishing
industry and highly decentralized political institutions. These
nations remained extraordinary exceptions to a rule that, for
example in France, did not end until the revolution of 1789. Here,
the author's European perspective provides a survey of the varying
censorship regulations in European nations, as well as the shifting
meanings of 'freedom of the press'. The analysis opens up
fascinating insights, afforded by careful reading of primary
archival sources, into the reactions of censors confronted with
manuscripts by authors seeking permission to publish. Tortarolo
sets the opinions on censorship of well-known writers, including
Voltaire and Montesquieu, alongside the commentary of anonymous
censors, allowing us to revisit some common views of
eighteenth-century history. How far did these writers, their
reasoning stiffened by Enlightenment values, promote dissident
views of absolutist monarchies in Europe, and what insights did
governments gain from censors' reports into the social tensions
brewing under their rule? These questions will excite dedicated
researchers, graduate students, and discerning lay readers alike.
Tracking the relationship between the theory of press control and
the realities of practicing daily press censorship prior to
publication, this volume on the suppression of dissent in early
modern Europe tackles a topic with many elusive and
under-researched characteristics. Pre-publication censorship was
common in absolutist regimes in Catholic and Protestant countries
alike, but how effective it was in practice remains open to debate.
The Netherlands and England, where critical content segued into
outright lampoonery, were unusual for hard-wired press freedoms
that arose, respectively, from a highly competitive publishing
industry and highly decentralized political institutions. These
nations remained extraordinary exceptions to a rule that, for
example in France, did not end until the revolution of 1789. Here,
the author's European perspective provides a survey of the varying
censorship regulations in European nations, as well as the shifting
meanings of 'freedom of the press'. The analysis opens up
fascinating insights, afforded by careful reading of primary
archival sources, into the reactions of censors confronted with
manuscripts by authors seeking permission to publish. Tortarolo
sets the opinions on censorship of well-known writers, including
Voltaire and Montesquieu, alongside the commentary of anonymous
censors, allowing us to revisit some common views of
eighteenth-century history. How far did these writers, their
reasoning stiffened by Enlightenment values, promote dissident
views of absolutist monarchies in Europe, and what insights did
governments gain from censors' reports into the social tensions
brewing under their rule? These questions will excite dedicated
researchers, graduate students, and discerning lay readers alike.
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