ISBN10: 0300212763, ISBN13: 9780300212761, [publisher: Yale University Press] Softcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaper
[Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2015]

ISBN10: 0300212763, ISBN13: 9780300212761, [publisher: Yale University Press] Softcover The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaper&Uumlber den AutorAndrew Pettegree is professor of modern history, University of St. Andrews, and founding director of.
[Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2015]
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ISBN10: 0300212763, ISBN13: 9780300212761, [publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven] Softcover Paperback. The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaper Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered and shared through conversation and gossip, civic ceremony, celebration, sermons, and proclamations. The age of print brought pamphlets, edicts, ballads, journals, and the first news-sheets, expanding the news community from local to worldwide. This groundbreaking book tracks the history of news in ten countries over the course of four centuries. It evaluates the unexpected variety of ways in which information was transmitted in the premodern world as well as the impact of expanding news media on contemporary events and the lives of an ever-more-informed public. Andrew Pettegree investigates who controlled the news and who reported it; the use of news as a tool of political protest and religious reform; issues of privacy and titillation; the persistent need for news to be current and journalists trustworthy; and peoples changed sense of themselves as they experienced newly opened windows on the world. By the close of the eighteenth century, Pettegree concludes, transmission of news had become so efficient and widespread that European citizensnow aware of wars, revolutions, crime, ...
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ISBN10: 0300212763, ISBN13: 9780300212761, [publisher: Yale University Press] Softcover
[Milano, MI, Italy] [Publication Year: 2015]

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ISBN10: 0300212763, ISBN13: 9780300212761, [publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven] Softcover Paperback. The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaper Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered and shared through conversation and gossip, civic ceremony, celebration, sermons, and proclamations. The age of print brought pamphlets, edicts, ballads, journals, and the first news-sheets, expanding the news community from local to worldwide. This groundbreaking book tracks the history of news in ten countries over the course of four centuries. It evaluates the unexpected variety of ways in which information was transmitted in the premodern world as well as the impact of expanding news media on contemporary events and the lives of an ever-more-informed public. Andrew Pettegree investigates who controlled the news and who reported it; the use of news as a tool of political protest and religious reform; issues of privacy and titillation; the persistent need for news to be current and journalists trustworthy; and peoples changed sense of themselves as they experienced newly opened windows on the world. By the close of the eighteenth century, Pettegree concludes, transmission of news had become so efficient and widespread that European citizensnow aware of wars, revolutions, crime, ...
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Yale Univ Pr 2015 Softcover New 456 pages. 9.25x6.00x1.75 inches.