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Press Policy Under Mature Neoabsolutism: Threat, Legality, and the Continual Appearance of Opposition Journalism

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Throughout the 1850s, the opposition press first maintained and then expanded in scope as its journalists learned to navigate the system of Neoabsolutism. While Bohemia generally remained peaceful during this period, the officials responsible for public order and security described themselves as increasingly hampered by laws that allowed what they felt to be direct challenges to the imperial state and its social peace. The failure of their own efforts to create a viable government-friendly periodical was well expressed in the complaint that “every literary figure that the government would want, would edit the paper in a spirit other than that of the government.” The public sphere not only survived but expanded during this time.

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Leigh, J.T. (2017). Press Policy Under Mature Neoabsolutism: Threat, Legality, and the Continual Appearance of Opposition Journalism. 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_5

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