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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: David ZaretPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press Volume: 5 Dimensions: Width: 19.70cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9780691006949ISBN 10: 0691006946 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 17 January 2000 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsIn this thoughtful and innovative work of historical sociology, Zaret challenges the prevailing view that democratic discourse and the politics of public opinion emerged from the culture of the Enlightenment. -- Choice Zaret has provocative and challenging things to say, and even those who disagree with his conclusion will find this a powerful work... This book itself is full of telling evidential details, cited without fanfare, that cumulatively show how an unusually perceptive author can use such nuances to fine-tune our larger stories about the past. Both sociologists and historians can read it with immense profit. -- Adrian Johns, American Historical Review Origins of Democratic Culture is an invigorating, well-researched and powerfully argued book. -- Andrew Hadfield, Times Literary Supplement David Zaret's Origins of Democratic Culture is an elegant, lucid, impeccably researched monograph that presents a cogent analysis of how a vibrant public sphere contributes to democratic practice... [It] advances our understanding of how political cultures operate. It marks Zaret as one of the major cultural historical sociologists in contemporary American sociology and will be 'must' reading for scholars of democracy and culture from all social science disciplines as well as for graduate seminars in comparative historical social science. -- Mabel Berezin, Social Forces This is a compelling interdisciplinary study that synthesizes recent historical scholarship on early modern politics and news culture with detailed archival research, and places its findings in a broad sociological perspective that offers a powerful corrective to prevailing conceptions of the origins, nature, and social composition of the early modern public sphere. -- Alastair Bellany, Journal of Interdisciplinary History Historically well informed, lucidly and persuasively written, and making a skillful synthesis of the general and the particular, Zaret's book deserves to be widely read by historians and sociologists alike. -- Peter Burke, American Journal of Sociology A major contribution the the substantive debate about the origins of the public sphere and democratic politics. -- Bryan S. Turner, Contemporary Sociology [An] engaging and persuasive book... Zaret argues that it was the explosion of printing in England during the 1640s which precipitated the crucial turning point in the origins of democratic culture. -- Adam Fox, European Review of History In this thoughtful and innovative work of historical sociology, Zaret challenges the prevailing view that democratic discourse and the politics of public opinion emerged from the culture of the Enlightenment. Choice Zaret has provocative and challenging things to say, and even those who disagree with his conclusion will find this a powerful work... This book itself is full of telling evidential details, cited without fanfare, that cumulatively show how an unusually perceptive author can use such nuances to fine-tune our larger stories about the past. Both sociologists and historians can read it with immense profit. -- Adrian Johns American Historical Review Origins of Democratic Culture is an invigorating, well-researched and powerfully argued book. -- Andrew Hadfield Times Literary Supplement David Zaret's Origins of Democratic Culture is an elegant, lucid, impeccably researched monograph that presents a cogent analysis of how a vibrant public sphere contributes to democratic practice... [It] advances our understanding of how political cultures operate. It marks Zaret as one of the major cultural historical sociologists in contemporary American sociology and will be 'must' reading for scholars of democracy and culture from all social science disciplines as well as for graduate seminars in comparative historical social science. -- Mabel Berezin Social Forces This is a compelling interdisciplinary study that synthesizes recent historical scholarship on early modern politics and news culture with detailed archival research, and places its findings in a broad sociological perspective that offers a powerful corrective to prevailing conceptions of the origins, nature, and social composition of the early modern public sphere. -- Alastair Bellany Journal of Interdisciplinary History Historically well informed, lucidly and persuasively written, and making a skillful synthesis of the general and the particular, Zaret's book deserves to be widely read by historians and sociologists alike. -- Peter Burke American Journal of Sociology A major contribution the the substantive debate about the origins of the public sphere and democratic politics. -- Bryan S. Turner Contemporary Sociology [An] engaging and persuasive book... Zaret argues that it was the explosion of printing in England during the 1640s which precipitated the crucial turning point in the origins of democratic culture. -- Adam Fox European Review of History Author InformationDavid Zaret is Executive Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Sociology at Indiana University. He is the author of The Heavenly Contract: Ideology and Organization in Pre-Revolutionary Puritanism. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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