The business of news

Front Matter --Preliminary Material /Author: Heiko Droste --Copyright page /Author: Heiko Droste --Acknowledgements /Author: Heiko Droste --Figures /Author: Heiko Droste --Abbreviations /Author: Heiko Droste --Chapter 1 News in the Era of the Printing Press /Author: Heiko Droste --Chapter 2 Infrastr...

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Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Droste, Heiko 1963- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Hurt, Madeleine (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden Boston : Brill, [2021]
Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel:Library of the written word Volume 86
Library of the written word / The handpress world Volume 67
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Library of the written word
Schlagworte:Press Press and politics Journalism Journalism ; Social aspects History Europa Nachrichtenmarkt Geschichte 1600-1800 Presse
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (x, 332 Seiten)
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Zusammenfassung:Front Matter --Preliminary Material /Author: Heiko Droste --Copyright page /Author: Heiko Droste --Acknowledgements /Author: Heiko Droste --Figures /Author: Heiko Droste --Abbreviations /Author: Heiko Droste --Chapter 1 News in the Era of the Printing Press /Author: Heiko Droste --Chapter 2 Infrastructure /Author: Heiko Droste --Chapter 3 The Newspaper in Seventeenth-Century Tracts /Author: Heiko Droste --Chapter 4 News Agents /Author: Heiko Droste --Chapter 5 Postmasters /Author: Heiko Droste --Epilogue The Baroque and the Contemporary News Market /Author: Heiko Droste --Back Matter --Bibliography /Author: Heiko Droste --Index /Author: Heiko Droste.
"In the seventeenth century news was an investment in social relationships, a resource that concerned the interests of members of functional elites. Exchanging news entailed different forms of participation in functional elites and, thus, privilege. This business was part of the elites' internal social structures; it constituted the fabric of all public institutions. This book questions notions of a print-based public sphere in seventeenth century. It is based on contemporary tracts on newspapers, the court culture, and letter-writers, as well as news correspondences and other archive material from archives in the Baltic Sea Region and beyond"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 332 Seiten)
ISBN:9789004440111
9004440119
9789004415850
9004415858
DOI:10.1163/9789004440111