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Pamphleteering : polemic, print, and the infrastructure of political agency / Pierre-Héli Monot.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Monot, Pierre-Héli, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge elements. Elements in publishing and book culture
- Cambridge elements. Elements in publishing and book culture, 2514-8524
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Activism--History.
- Activism.
- Pamphleteers--History.
- Pamphleteers.
- Pamphlets--Publishing--History.
- Pamphlets.
- Polemics.
- Social movements--History.
- Social movements.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (100 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "The 'Pamphlet Wars' of the seventeenth century, the activist texts of the Labour Movement, and the recent campaigns for climate justice have all drawn on the affordances of pamphleteering to advance their cause: pamphlets circulate across geographical boundaries and social divides, they attract a readership that is usually excluded from the classical public sphere, they can be produced at low cost, and they often provide anonymity to their authors. This Element provides a brief history of short-form polemical literature from the Reformation to the present. It argues that popular dissent and popular political agency must be understood in light of the material and, more recently, digital history of polemical literature. It makes the case that current online polemic is best understood as a late infrastructural transformation of classical and modern pamphleteering"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Infrastructure : From antiquity to the printing press
- ‘Ordinary readers’ : Revolutionary pamphleteering
- Beneath the public sphere : Radical pamphleteering 1898–1950
- The civil rights movement : a pamphletary event
- Pamphleteering after paper.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 12, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Monot, Pierre-Héli. Pamphleteering
- ISBN:
- 9781009550338
- 1009550330
- OCLC:
- 1533767413
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000264373
- Access Restriction:
- Some versions: Open access versions available from some providers open access
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