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Licensing Loyalty: Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France (Penn State Series in the History of the Book) by Jane McLeod is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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In Licensing Loyalty, historian Jane McLeod explores the evolution of the idea that the royal government of eighteenth-century France had much to fear from the rise of print culture. She argues that early modern French printers helped foster this view as they struggled to negotiate a place in the expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the French state. Printers in the provinces and in Paris relentlessly lobbied the government, hoping to convince authorities that printing done by their commercial ri
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- Author
- Jane McLeod
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780271056722
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Computer Science, Reference
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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