The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe

Bold in conception, magisterial in its command of vast swathes of evidence and brimming with clever ideas, it is a formidable accomplishment – John Adamson * Literary Review *
Highly ambitious and impressive … here is a book that anyone and everyone interested in early-modern Europe will enjoy reading, and from which they will learn a huge amount – Noel Malcolm * Times Literary Supplement *
Monumental and mesmerising … Raymond Wren has produced a transformative work – Peter Marshall * History Today *
Capacious in structure, monumental in volume – Minoo Dinshaw * Spectator *
Utopian is the ambition to write a history of news, that most quicksilver of commodities, and Raymond Wren has knowingly attempted the impossible … The Great Exchange must be counted a triumphant success – Daniel Johnson * The Critic *

Joad Raymond is a writer and historian of early modern Europe who has taught at the universities of Oxford, Aberdeen, East Anglia, Paris-Sorbonne and Queen Mary University of London. His previous books include The Invention of the Newspaper, Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain, Milton’s Angels and, as editor, Making the News, The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture- Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1600, News Networks in Early Modern Europe and The Complete Works of John Milton- Latin Defences.

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