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The Revolution Begins: All Was Seemingly at Risk

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Austrian Imperial Censorship and the Bohemian Periodical Press, 1848–71

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During the Revolutions of 1848 in Bohemia, under conditions of a free press and therewith market-determined success, a liberal-nationalist periodical press emerged as the public voice of opposition to the Austrian Imperial state.  This bourgeois public sphere, grounded in a common mid-century liberalism, was, however, forced by the very issues raised by the revolution into separate and increasingly hostile Czech and German camps, despite efforts of German and Czech liberals to maintain amity.  The Imperial state, however, while benefitting from the still general moderation of the opposition in Bohemia, was clearly losing its previously singular role in the political affairs of Bohemia to the new prevalence of market forces demanding a public and increasingly rancorous discussion of political issues.

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Leigh, J.T. (2017). The Revolution Begins: All Was Seemingly at Risk. In: Austrian Imperial Censorship and the Bohemian Periodical Press, 1848–71. Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55880-6_2

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