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Printed Propaganda under Louis XIV: Absolute Monarchy and Public Opinion
By (Author) Joseph Klaits
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Public administration
European history
Communication studies
320.014
Hardback
358
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
652g
In the late seventeenth century the role of printed propaganda in manipulating public consciousness became increasingly explicit, and governments developed systematic controls over the printed word. This book considers the purposes, mechanisms, content, and audience of royal printed propaganda in early modern France. The author first sketches the i