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London´s News Press and the Thirty Years War
Jayne E. E. Boys
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Description for London´s News Press and the Thirty Years War
Paperback. A topical subject offering interesting parallels between the news revolution in the age of James I and Charles I and our internet age. An important contribution to the history of print and books. Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History. Num Pages: 348 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 510.
London's News Press shows that seventeenth-century England was very much part of a European-wide news community. The book presents a new print history that looks across Europe and the interconnecting political and religious groups with international networks. It tells the story of the printers and publishers engaged in the earliest, illicit publications, their sources and connections in Germany as well as the Netherlands, and traces the way legitimacy was achieved. These were the earliest printed periodical news publications. Periodicity and its implications for trade and customers is explored as well as the roles of publishers and editors. The ... Read more
London's News Press shows that seventeenth-century England was very much part of a European-wide news community. The book presents a new print history that looks across Europe and the interconnecting political and religious groups with international networks. It tells the story of the printers and publishers engaged in the earliest, illicit publications, their sources and connections in Germany as well as the Netherlands, and traces the way legitimacy was achieved. These were the earliest printed periodical news publications. Periodicity and its implications for trade and customers is explored as well as the roles of publishers and editors. The ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843839347
SKU
V9781843839347
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Ref
99-50
Reviews for London´s News Press and the Thirty Years War
A bold work. Challenging conventional scholarship, Boys makes a compelling case that war in Germany rather than civil war in England produced the first news serials and an informed public sphere. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW One of the great merits of this book is the author's thoroughness and care in handling the material, but more important than ... Read more