The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe

Joad Raymond Wren (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

624 Seiten

2027
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-198071-3 (ISBN)

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News moves. It is a battle, a scandal, a disaster. It is a letter, a newspaper, a proclamation. News is a material thing, but also something between us, something we take into us and feel.

This book tells the story of news from the sunset of the Middle Ages to the rise of mass media. Following the beat of news from the Venetian envoys and merchants who established its channels and conventions, it uncovers a vast, invisible network carrying news all around Europe, traversing the borders imposed by geography and politics, religion and language.

Joad Raymond Wren allows the reader to see news – of the battle of Lepanto, the siege of Vienna – spreading around this network in real time. Dispelling the myth that news was until the printing press scarce and unreliable, and until the telegraph slow and provincial, he opens up windows onto a world buzzing with news from faraway. News brought the distant closer, and provided the means for Europe to know itself. The continent was, for a time, held together by that most essential of human acts: communication.

Joad Raymond is a writer and historian of early modern Europe who has taught at the universities of Oxford, Aberdeen, East Anglia, Paris-Sorbonne and Queen Mary University of London. His previous books include The Invention of the Newspaper, Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain, Milton's Angels and, as editor, Making the News, The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture and News Networks in Early Modern Europe.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.7.2027
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-14-198071-0 / 0141980710
ISBN-13	978-0-14-198071-3 / 9780141980713
Zustand	Neuware