Bookshops, Forbidden Print and Urban Political Culture in Central Europe, 1800-1850.
To understand how German and Austrian readers gained access to forbidden literature during the Restoration and Vormärz periods, one must enter the world of bookshops. Publishers and book merchants, this essay argues, completed the print circuit of forbidden political knowledge. They possessed numero...
| Publicado en: | German History Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 403 - 431 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2017
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