From Ghent to AIX: How They Brought the News in the Habsburg Netherlands, 1550-1700

by Paul Arblaster

Sixteenth-century Brussels and Antwerp in combination formed the northern linchpin of an international communication network that covered Western and Central Europe. In the seventeenth century both cities saw the rise of newspapers that compare revealingly with those produced in Germany, the Dutch Republic, England and France.
In From Ghent to Aix, Paul Arblaster examines the services that carried the news, the types of news publicized, and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004276475
• ISBN13: 9789004276475
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"