An Ocean of Rumours

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News and Information in the Atlantic World

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Av Michiel van Groesen, Michiel (Universiteit Leiden) van Groesen, Michiel Van Groesen, Michiel van Groesen

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Across the early modern Atlantic world, there were commodities just as valuable as sugar, tobacco or cotton: news and information. However, crossing an ocean beset by wars, pirates and bad weather made transoceanic communications irregular at best, posing significant challenges to the weekly European news cycle. With infrequent access to information, publishers had to navigate between speculation and confirmation, printing everything they could without losing credibility or customers. Michiel van Groesen explores this 'culture of anticipation' across the Atlantic world in Spain, Portugal, France, the Low Countries and England and also in the urban information centres of Renaissance Italy and the Holy Roman Empire. He argues that news from the Atlantic world underpinned all transatlantic exchanges, giving newspapers their rightful place in Atlantic history, and the Atlantic world its place in the history of news.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-01-31
Vikt500 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Oceanic Histories
Antal sidor300
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108838382

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'How did people in the early Atlantic world know what they thought they knew? Michiel van Groesen answers this question through painstaking multilingual research in diverse national and imperial news cultures across the long seventeenth century. An essential work in Atlantic history, An Ocean of Rumours charts a new chronology for the rise of an integrated Atlantic news culture.' Alison Games, Georgetown University