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The great exchange : making the news in early modern Europe / Joad Raymond Wren.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PN5110 .W74 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wren, Joad R., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Journalism--Europe--History.
- Journalism.
- Newspaper publishing--Europe--History.
- Newspaper publishing.
- Press--History.
- Press.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 596 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London [England] : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2025.
- Summary:
- 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 in modern times. It begins in Renaissance Italy, with the envoys and merchants who drew in and disseminated news across Europe, establishing its channels and conventions. Following the beat of news around the continent, it uncovers a vast, invisible network traversing the boundaries of 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 tenacious 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A trembling movement
- Before the fall : letters of news and commerce to 1453
- Avvisi and the genius of the paragraph
- Venice, republic of news
- Intelligence of everything, and the labours of the post
- The first printing of news
- To be a merchant
- The materials of print from the occasional pamphlet to the serial gazette
- Bundling the news
- The places of news
- The peripheries of Europe
- A babel of tongues : the languages of news
- Imagining news and the noise it makes
- Trust : reading true, false and fake news
- Managing the news
- The diffusion of printed periodical news
- Conclusion: Endings and beginnings.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-570) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0241188539
- 9780241188538
- OCLC:
- 1455107425
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000217170
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