In its various European contexts, the invention and spread of newspapers in the seventeenth century had a profound effect on early modern culture and politics. While recent research has explored the r
The media historians who are the contributors to this volume are employed in academic institutions in Canada, France, the US, Germany, England, Belgium, Italy, and the Netherlands. They bring diverse
Eisenstein's 1979 The Printing Press as an Agent of Change has itself been an agent of change in many disciplines, was responsible for the creation of print culture studies as a new field of study, an
