Travelling chronicles news and newspapers from the early modern period to the eighteenth century

"Travelling Chronicles presents fourteen episodes in the history of news, written by some of the leading scholars in the rapidly developing fields of news and newspaper studies. Ranging across eastern and western Europe and beyond, the chapters look back to the early modern period and into the...

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Other Authors: Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril (Editor), Goring, Paul (Editor), Watson, Christine (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden Brill 2018, [2018]
Series:Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a A network of networks : spreading the news in an expanding world of information / Paul Goring -- Truth and trust and the eighteenth-century Anglophone newspaper / William B. Warner -- Searching for Dr. Johnson : the digitisation of the Burney Newspaper Collection / Andrew Prescott -- Spreading the news within the clerical profession : newspapers and the church in the north of England, 1660-1760 / Daniel Reed -- All the news that's fit to write : the eighteenth-century manuscript newsletter / Rachael Scarborough King -- Christoff Koch (1637-1711) : Sweden's man in Moscow / Heiko Droste and Ingrid Maier -- What the Posol'skii prikaz really knew : intelligencers, secret agents and their reports / Daniel C. Waugh -- News of travels, travelling news : the mediation of travel and exploration in the Gazette de France and the Journal de l'Empire / Marius Warholm Haugen -- Foreign news reporting in transition : James Perry and the French Constitution ceremony / Johanne Kristiansen -- Diplomatic channels and Chinese whispers : reception and transformation of the Moscow uprising of 1648 in Sweden and France / Malte Griesse -- From piety to profit : the development of newspaper advertising in the Dutch Golden Age / Arthur der Weduwen -- Mercury as merchant : the advertisement of novels in eighteenth-century provincial English newspapers / Siv Goril Brandtzag -- Establishing a state-controlled network for news trading in the Swedish Baltic provinces in the late seventeenth century : causes and consequences / Kaarel Vanamolder -- News versus opinion : the state, the press, and the northern enlightenment / Ellen Krefting -- Was there an enlightenment culture of news? / Andrew Pettegree 
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520 |a "Travelling Chronicles presents fourteen episodes in the history of news, written by some of the leading scholars in the rapidly developing fields of news and newspaper studies. Ranging across eastern and western Europe and beyond, the chapters look back to the early modern period and into the eighteenth century to consider how the news of the past was gathered and spread, how news outlets gained respect and influence, how news functioned as a business, and also how the historiography of news can be conducted with the resources available to scholars today. Travelling Chronicles offers a timely analysis of early news, at a moment when historical newspaper archives are being widely digitalised and as the truth value of news in our own time undergoes intense scrutiny"--