Moral Panics, the Media and the Law in Early Modern England
An exploration of links between opinion and governance in Early Modern England, studying moral panics about crime, sex and belief. Hypothesizing that media-driven panics proliferated in the 1700s, with the development of newspapers and government sensibility to opinion, it also considers earlier pan...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
Palgrave Macmillan UK
2009, 2009
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | An exploration of links between opinion and governance in Early Modern England, studying moral panics about crime, sex and belief. Hypothesizing that media-driven panics proliferated in the 1700s, with the development of newspapers and government sensibility to opinion, it also considers earlier panics about cross-dressing and witchcraft |
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| Physical Description: | XI, 279 p. 7 illus online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780230274679 |