State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age

Arthur der Weduwen is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St Andrews and Deputy Director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue project. He specialises in the history of communication, printing and the book trade, early modern politics, and the history of the Netherlands. He is the author of Dutch and Flemish Newspapers of the Seventeenth Century (2 vols., Brill, 2017), The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age (with Andrew Pettegree, Yale UP, 2019), and The Library, A Fragile History (with Andrew Pettegree, Profile, 2021), a Sunday Times Book of the Year.

• PrefaceList of FiguresList of TablesConventionsAbbreviations1: Selling the Republican IdealI. Political Legacies2: The Politics of Placards3: From Rebellion to RepublicII. Negotiating the Republic4: Justifying the Law5: Crying and Affixing the Law6: Printing and Selling the LawIII. The Paradox of Print7: Print and the Ommelander Troubles8: The Public Struggles of True Freedom9: Their High Mightinesses turn NewsmongersIV. From the Disaster Year to the Dutch Armada10: State Communication and Catastrophe11: Pamphlet Wars and DeclarationsCoda12: The Prince is Dead, Long Live the RepublicBibliographyIndex