The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe 1660-1789
The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe 1660-1789 By T. C. W. Blanning
2002 | 498 Pages | ISBN: 0198227450 | PDF | 7 MB
2002 | 498 Pages | ISBN: 0198227450 | PDF | 7 MB
In this fascinating new account of Old Regime Europe, T.C.W. Blanning explores the cultural revolution which transformed eighteenth-century Europe. During this period the court culture exemplified by Louis XIV's Versailles was pushed from the center to the margins by the emergence of a new kind of space - the public sphere. The author shows how many of the world's most important cultural institutions developed in this space: the periodical, the newspaper, the novel, the lending library, the coffee house, the voluntary association, the journalist, and the critic.