The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe
$57.73
- Hardcover
624 pages
- Release Date
14 October 2025
Summary
An epic history of the birth of news in Europe.
“Highly ambitious and impressive… a rich, multifaceted and thought-provoking book.” - Noel Malcolm, Times Literary Supplement
News moves. It is a battle, a scandal, a disaster. It is a letter, a newspaper, a proclamation. News is a material thing, but also something between us, something we take into us and feel.
This book tells the story of news from the sunset of the Middle Ages to the rise of mass media in mod…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241188538 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241188539 |
| Author: | Joad Raymond Wren |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Allen Lane |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Release Date: | 14 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 1.06kg |
| Dimensions: | 39mm x 164mm x 241mm |
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Critics Review
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 Wren
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
As editor, his previous works include:
- Making the News
- The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1600
- News Networks in Early Modern Europe
- The Complete Works of John Milton: Latin Defences
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