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Long before the invention of printing, let alone the daily newspaper, people wanted to stay informed. In the pre-industrial era, news was mostly shared through gossip, sermons, and proclamations. The age of print brought pamphlets, ballads, and the first news-sheets. In this groundbreaking history, renowned historian Andrew Pettegree tracks the evolution of news in ten countries over the course of four centuries, examining the impact of news media on contemporary events and the lives of an ever-more-informed public.
The Invention of News sheds light on 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 for journalists to be trustworthy; and people's changing sense of themselves and their communities as they experienced newly opened windows on the world.
The Invention of News sheds light on 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 for journalists to be trustworthy; and people's changing sense of themselves and their communities as they experienced newly opened windows on the world.
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"The news is out: Andrew Pettegree writes the big ones best."
Steven Ozment, author of A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People
"At this moment of rapid change in news media, Andrew Pettegree's learned and wide-ranging survey of five centuries and three continents has an unusually contemporary resonance for a major work of history. His message is cheering: human curiosity is intimately linked to human freedom, and is inclined to get its own way."
Diarmaid MacCulloch, author of Reformation: Europe's House Divided, 1490–1700
"Andrew Pettegree has given us a splendid new account of the flow of information and opinion in Europe from the end of the Middle Ages through the eighteenth century. From postal systems and tavern talk to handwritten commercial letters and the emergence of the periodical press-Pettegree tells it all, with rich and entertaining example and luminous reference to Europe's political and religious his
Natalie Zemon Davis