An Inky Business: A History of Newspapers from the English Civil Wars to the American Civil War

by Matthew J. Shaw

An Inky Business is a book about the making and printing of news. It is a history of ink, paper, printing press, and type, and of those who made and read newspapers in Britain, continental Europe, and America from the British Civil Wars to the Battle of Gettysburg nearly two hundred years later. But it is also an account of what news was and how the idea of news became central to public life. Newspapers ranged from purveyors of high seriousness...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789143861
• ISBN13: 9781789143867
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.6"