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"In this study of the press during the French Revolutionary crisis of the early 1830s, Jeremy Popkin shows that newspapers played a crucial role in defining a new repertoire of identities - for workers, women and members of the middle classes - that redefined Europe's public spheres. Nowhere was this process more visible than in Lyon, the great manufacturing centre where the aftershocks of the July Revolution of 1830 were strongest. In July 1830, Lyon's population had rallied around its liberal newspaper and opposed the conservative Restoration government. In less than two years, however, Lyon's press and its public opinion, like those of the country as a whole, had become irrevocably fragmented. Popkin shows how the structure of the ""journalistic field"" in liberal society multiplied political conflicts and produced new tensions between the domains of politics and culture. New periodicals appeared, claiming to speak for workers, for women, and for the local interests of Lyon. The public was becoming inherently plural with the emergence of new ""imagined communities"" that would dominate French public life well into the 20th century. Jeremy Popkin is well known for his earlier studies of journalism during the 18th century and the French Revolution. In ""Press, Revolution and Social Identities in France"" he not only moves forward in time but also offers a new model for a cultural history of journalism and its relationship to literature."

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"""Following his magistorial studies of the press of the Old Regime and the Revolution, Jeremy Popkin turns to periodicals in Lyon in the 1830s. Focusing on how the press inflected political culture, he demonstrates that social classes realized their very existence through competing newspaper images. To understand this press is to comprehend the formation of an emerging industrial society. This book represents a quantum leap in the study of the nineteenth-century press, and Popkin opens up the field in unprecedented fashion."" - Jack R. Censer, George Mason University"

Following his magistorial studies of the press of the Old Regime and the Revolution, Jeremy Popkin turns to periodicals in Lyon in the 1830s. Focusing on how the press inflected political culture, he demonstrates that social classes realized their very existence through competing newspaper images. To understand this press is to comprehend the formation of an emerging industrial society. This book represents a quantum leap in the study of the nineteenth-century press, and Popkin opens up the field in unprecedented fashion. - Jack R. Censer, George Mason University

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Jeremy D. Popkin is Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. He has published a number of books on French history and the history of the press, including Revolutionary News: The Press in France, 1789-1799 (1990). Popkin is also editor of Panorama of Paris: Selections from Le Tableses de Paris (Penn State, 1999).

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