Pauper Press. A study in working class radicalism of the 1830s
Details:
- Author(s) Hollis, Patricia L
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1970
- Pages 348pp
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- Name Taxation inc customs, excise, stamp duties, etc: imposition & impact
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Deals with illegal publication in 1830s of unstamped newspapers evading newspaper stamp duty, thereby made available to poor / working class and thus a source of radicalism. Structured in two parts: Part 1 - The taxes on knowledge:] 'Politics and the unstamped - the problem of education'; 'Government and the unstamped - the problem of public order'; 'The middle class campaign'; Part 2: 'The unstamped press': 'Organization' - distribution, sales, business, profits, rivals; 'Prosecution'; 'Ideology - the old analysis'; Ideology - the new analysis'; 'Impact'. Appendix - 'Biographical notes on publishers and authors of the unstamped'