The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe

James Melton's lucid and accessible study examines the rise of the public in 18th-century Europe. A work of comparative synthesis focusing on England, France an... » 

James Melton's lucid and accessible study examines the rise of the public in 18th-century Europe. A work of comparative synthesis focusing on England, France and the German-speaking territories, this a book-length, critical reassessment of what Habermas termed the bourgeois public sphere. «