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The early modern Dutch press in an age of religious persecution : the making of humanitarianism / David de Boer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boer, David de, 1990- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Press--Netherlands--History--17th century.
- Press.
- Press--Netherlands--History--18th century.
- Religious minorities--Netherlands--History--17th century.
- Religious minorities.
- Religious minorities--Netherlands--History--18th century.
- Persecution--Press coverage--Netherlands--History--17th century.
- Persecution.
- Persecution--Press coverage--Netherlands--History--18th century.
- Netherlands.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (200 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- This text traces the emergence of European humanitarian culture through the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries. Drawing on an exceptionally rich body of pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers, it uncovers how victims of persecution first learned how to employ the printing presses in the Dutch Republic to raise transnational solidarity.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- The Rise of Print as a Humanitarian Tool
- The Terms of Debate
- A Center of Appeal
- 1. The Paradox of Intervention
- The Poor of Lyon
- Petitioning and Treason
- Public Diplomacy
- International Accountability
- Law
- Religious Persecution
- Inhumanity
- Confessional Animosity
- The Limits of Humanitarian Engagement
- Conclusion
- 2. A Silent Persecution
- Unconditional Loyalty
- The Divided Provinces
- (In)convenient News
- The Voice of the Persecuted
- The Psychology of Persecution
- 3. Covering a Refugee Crisis
- A Worried Ambassador
- Victims
- Anonymity
- Perpetrators
- Hosts
- 4. Selling the Last War of Religion
- The Anticipation of Fake News
- Assuming the Voice of the Camisards
- Selling Intervention
- To Hearten and Inspire
- 5. Between Eschatology and Enlightenment
- The Tumult
- Royal Public Diplomacy
- A Cause Célèbre
- Visions of Religious War
- Irenicism
- Foreign Narratives
- The Last Expulsion
- Conclusion: Beyond the Confessional Divide
- Solidarity Before Modernity
- Between Word and Deed
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 24, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: de Boer, David The Early Modern Dutch Press in an Age of Religious Persecution
- ISBN:
- 0-19-198800-6
- 0-19-887682-3
- 0-19-887681-5
- OCLC:
- 1395076712
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