Popular Culture and the Public Sphere in the Rhineland, 1800–1850 (New Studies in European History) - Hardcover

Brophy, James M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521847699 ISBN 13: 9780521847698

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Popular Culture and the Public Sphere in the Rhineland, 1800-1850 A study of the politicisation of 'ordinary people' in western Germany in the 1850s. Full description

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Review:

Reviews of the hardback: 'Throughout the book, the author demonstrates the interconnectedness of bourgeois and plebeian worlds in the formation of opinion. How did common people come by political information, learn to grasp post-revolutionary ideas and ideologies, and become part of civil society? What was the process by which they became citizens in the classical political sense? An impressive array of archival and published material from the formerly French Rhineland has been marshalled ...' Journal of Central European History

'This book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in expressions of public culture in the decades leading up to the 1848 revolution. ... It is a well presented book with illustrations and photographs and, most usefully for an international readership, all German quotations translated into English.' Song and Popular Culture

'... impressively combines social and political theory with empirical research, ably weaving and organizing the results of years of work in the archival trenches into a well-crafted monograph ... This is certainly an informative case study that should be read and studied by all scholars of modern Germany ...' Journal of Modern History

'The study, deeply embedded in the many appropriate strands of scholarship and painstaking archival research, is divided into six substantive and mesmerizing chapters. ...The author rounds out the book with absorbing chapters on the roles of singing, carnival, tumult, and religion. ...An eminently readable treat for most German and many European historians ...' The Historian

Book Description:

An innovative study of the politicisation of 'ordinary people' in western Germany during the first half of the nineteenth century. With chapters devoted to reading, singing, public space, carnival, violence and religion, James Brophy argues that popular culture played a critical role in linking ordinary Rhinelanders to the public sphere.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0521847699
• ISBN 13: 9780521847698
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384