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From Ghent to Aix : how they brought the news in the Habsburg Netherlands, 1550-1700 /
"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 D...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Dutch Francés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston :
Brill,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Library of the written word ;
36. Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 27. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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 relationship of these newspapers to Baroque Europe's other methods of public communication, from drums and trumpets, ceremonies and sermons, to almanacs, pamphlets, pasquinades and newsletters. The merchant's need for information and the government's desire to influence opinion together opened up a space in which a new social force would take root: the media"-- |
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| Notas: | In English with some Dutch and French. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 376 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004276840 900427684X 1306942551 9781306942553 |