Research Catalog

Title

The invention of news : how the world came to know about itself / Andrew Pettegree.

Author

Pettegree, Andrew

Publication

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2014]

Supplementary Content

• Table of contents
• Klappentext

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Description

445 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"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 people's 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 citizens-now aware of wars, revolutions, crime, disasters, scandals, and other events-were poised to emerge as actors in the great events unfolding around them"--

Subject

• Journalism > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 408-428) and index.

Contents

Introduction: All the news that's fit to tell -- The beginnings of news publication: Power and imagination ; The wheels of commerce ; The first news prints ; State and nation ; Confidential correspondents ; Marketplace and tavern ; Triumph and tragedy -- Mercury rising: Speeding the posts ; The first newspapers ; War and rebellion ; Storm in a coffee cup -- Enlightenment?: The search for truth ; The age of the journal ; In business ; From our own correspondent ; Cry freedom ; How Samuel Sewall read his paper -- Conclusion.

Call Number

JFE 14-3700

ISBN

• 9780300179088 (hardcover)
• 0300179081 (hardcover)

LCCN

2013041978

OCLC

861677227

Author

Pettegree, Andrew, author.

Title

The invention of news : how the world came to know about itself / Andrew Pettegree.

Publisher

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 408-428) and index.

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Table of contents

Klappentext

Research Call Number

JFE 14-3700