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

LivresAuteur principal: Pettegree, Andrew, 1957-...., AuteurLangue: anglais.Éditeur : New Haven (Conn.), London : Yale University press • C 2014Description : 1 vol. (445 p.) : ill., cartes, portr., fac-sim., jaquette ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 978-0-300-17908-8; 978-0-300-21276-1.Résumé : 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. [Editeur]Sujet - Nom commun: Presse -- Europe Histoire | Journalisme -- Europe Histoire Voir dans le SUDOC
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Autre tirage en version brochée : 2015

Bibliogr. p. [408]-428. Notes bibliogr. Index

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. Editeur

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