Description: The history of Central Europe's print markets between Napoleon and the era of unification doubles as a political tale. It sheds important new light on political communication and how publishers exposed German-language readers to the Age of Democratic Revolution.
Review Quotes: "James Brophy's magisterial Print Markets and Political Dissent in Central Europe illuminates everything it touches, bringing the world of printing houses, bookshops and struggling writers to enthralling life and exposing the tensions between commerce, dissent and censorship that shaped the 19th-century public sphere." -- History Today, Books of the Year 2024
"Brophy's magnificent work makes clear the need to integrate print materials into historical analyses of 19th-century German political culture." -- D. A. Meier, Choice"Brophy's new monograph makes an important contribution to research on Central European history. All scholars of nineteenth-century politics and political culture will need to reckon with his portrayal of the central roles of publishers and booksellers in those arenas. For that matter, all who are interested in Germanophone cultural life and production will find this study of publishers helpful for understanding the formative bases of German culture in the nineteenth century." -- Brian Vick, American Historical Review