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The European press and news in the Mediterranean and India, c. 1650-1800 : global Renaissance and Enlightenment / Cornel Zwierlein.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Zwierlein, Cornel, author.
Series:
Palgrave pivot
Palgrave Pivot
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
European newspapers--History--17th century.
European newspapers.
European newspapers--History--18th century.
Foreign news--Mediterranean Region--History--17th century.
Foreign news.
Foreign news--Mediterranean Region--History--18th century.
Foreign news--India--History--17th century.
Foreign news--India--History--18th century.
European newspapers--History.
Foreign news--History.
India.
Mediterranean Region.
Physical Description:
xiv, 266 pages : illustrations (partly color) ; 22 cm.
Place of Publication:
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland, [2025]
Summary:
"This book reconstructs the first attempts to integrate Europe and Asia in terms of newspaper distribution, reception, and news coverage during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The East India Companies shared news via the overland route from Aleppo through Persia to India by using professional runners, riders, and postal relay systems. This book reminds us of the special character of the European handwritten and printed newspapers in Italy, Germany, France, and England as a precondition for what merchants in India and the Levant were likely to miss abroad. Comparative sections address such newspapers' relationship with the Moghul newsletter system (akhbåaråat) and whether the European Enlightenment was eeting a global Indian Renaissance in terms of news circulation. The conclusion compares these Euro-Indian realities with similar handwritten news circulation and printed press in China and in the Americas." -- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. European Prehistory of News Communication
Chapter 3. Connecting Europe, the Levant, and India
Chapter 4. Early European News and Newspapers in the Trade Networks' Communication, Mediterranean and India
Chapter 5. Conclusion: Global Comparisons.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-248) and indexes.
Other Format:
e-book version
ISBN:
9783031872556
303187255X
OCLC:
1537992821
Publisher Number:
9783031872556

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