The great exchange : making the news in early modern Europe /
News moves. It is a battle, a scandal, a disaster. It is a letter, a newspaper, a proclamation. News is a material thing, but also something between us, something we take into us and feel. This book tells the story of news from the sunset of the Middle Ages to the rise of mass media in modern times....
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London :
Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A trembling movement
- Before the fall: Letters of news and commerce to 1453
- Avvisi and the genius of the paragraph
- Venice, republic of news
- Intelligence of everything, and the labours of the post
- The first printing of news
- To be a merchant
- The materials of print from the occasional pamphlet to the serial gazette
- Bundling the news
- The places of news
- The peripheries of Europe
- A babel of tongues: The languages of news
- Imagining news and the noise it makes
- Trust: Reading true, false and fake news
- Managing the news
- The diffusion of printed periodical news
- Conclusion: Endings and beginnings.