Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe

James Melton''s lucid and accessible 2001 study examines the rise of ''the public'' in eighteenth-century Europe. A work of comparative synthesis focusing on England, France and the German-speaking territories, this was the first book-length, critical reassessment of what Habermas termed the ''bourgeois public sphere''. During the Enlightenment the Public assumed a new significance as governments ...