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The Business of News

The Business of News

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Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral ReferenceGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 9004415858
ISBN13: 9789004415850
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jun 23 2021
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
In the seventeenth century news was an investment in social relationships, a resource that concerned the interests of members of functional elites. Exchanging news entailed different forms of participation in functional elites and, thus, privilege. This business was part of the elites' internal social structures; it constituted the fabric of all public institutions.
This book questions notions of a print-based public sphere in the seventeenth century. It is based on contemporary tracts on newspapers, the court culture, and letter-writers, as well as news correspondences and other material from archives in the Baltic Sea Region and beyond.

This book is a translation of: Das Geschäft mit Nachrichten: Ein barocker Markt für soziale Ressourcen (Bremen: edition lumière, 2018).

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