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Paperback The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know about Itself Book

ISBN: 0300212763

ISBN13: 9780300212761

The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know about Itself

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The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaper

Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered and shared through conversation and gossip, civic ceremony, celebration, sermons, and proclamations. The age of print brought pamphlets, edicts, ballads, journals,...

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