The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know about Itself by Pettegree, Andrew

The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know about Itself

The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the...
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Author: Andrew Pettegree
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The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know about Itself by Pettegree, Andrew

The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know about Itself

€38,31

The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know about Itself

€38,31
Author: Andrew Pettegree
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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 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.

Author: Andrew Pettegree
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 03/10/2015
Pages: 456
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.25w x 1.35d
ISBN: 9780300212761

About the Author
Andrew Pettegree is professor of modern history, University of St. Andrews, and founding director of the St. Andrews Reformation Studies Institute. He lives in Fife, Scotland.


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