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James Melton's accessible study examines the rise of the public in eighteenth-century Europe. Focusing on England, France, and the German-speaking territories, this is the first critical reassessment of what the philosopher J?rgen Habermas called the bourgeois public sphere of... Read Full Overview

James Melton's accessible study examines the rise of "the public" in eighteenth-century Europe. Focusing on England, France, and the German-speaking territories, this is the first critical reassessment of what the philosopher J?rgen Habermas called the "bourgeois public sphere"... Read Full Overview

James Melton's accessible study examines the rise of the public in eighteenth-century Europe. Focusing on England, France, and the German-speaking territories, this is the first critical reassessment of what the philosopher J?rgen Habermas called the bourgeois public sphere of... Read Full Overview