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The Invention of News: How the World Learned About Itself – Pettygree Andrew – IS – 2021 – ISBN 978-5-17-127024-7

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A book by Andrew Pettigree, a professor of modern history at the University of St. Andrews and an acclaimed writer specializing in the Renaissance, first came out in 2015 and was rapturously received by critics and the American media. The New Yorker magazine called it "an expository history," and literary critic Adam Kirsch noted that the book is "an outstanding preface to the past that helps us understand our future."
The author covers a period of nearly four centuries-from the pre-press era to 1800, from the late Middle Ages to the French Revolution, exploring in detail people's instinct to seek news and the desire to be informed. The reader is presented with a fascinating panorama of centuries of truly multimedia exchanges, incorporating all available means of disseminating news-talk and rumor, civic ceremonies and celebrations, church sermons and proclamations in the squares, and, with the advent of the printing age, pamphlets, ballads, newspapers, and pamphlets.
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