Cornel Zwierlein has taught early modern history in Germany since 2001 at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (PhD and postdoctoral period) and Freie Universität Berlin (Heisenberg Fellowship), and he is teaching at the Ruhr University Bochum (habilitation rights). He has worked in cooperation with, and researched at, such institutions as Harvard and Yale Universities and the University of California, Berkeley, in the USA, and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, as well as in France, the Netherlands, Italy, and beyond.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2.European Prehistory of News Communication.- Chapter 3. Connecting Europe, the Levant and India.- Chapter 4. Early European News and Newspapers in the Trade Networks’ Communication, Mediterranean and India.- Chapter 5. Conclusion: Global Comparisons.

Cornel Zwierlein has taught early modern history in Germany since 2001 at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (PhD and postdoctoral period) and Freie Universität Berlin (Heisenberg Fellowship), and he is teaching at the Ruhr University Bochum (habilitation rights). He has worked in cooperation with, and researched at, such institutions as Harvard and Yale Universities and the University of California, Berkeley, in the USA, and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, as well as in France, the Netherlands, Italy, and beyond.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2.European Prehistory of News Communication.- Chapter 3. Connecting Europe, the Levant and India.- Chapter 4. Early European News and Newspapers in the Trade Networks’ Communication, Mediterranean and India.- Chapter 5. Conclusion: Global Comparisons.

Cornel Zwierlein has taught early modern history in Germany since 2001 at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (PhD and postdoctoral period) and Freie Universität Berlin (Heisenberg Fellowship), and he is teaching at the Ruhr University Bochum (habilitation rights). He has worked in cooperation with, and researched at, such institutions as Harvard and Yale Universities and the University of California, Berkeley, in the USA, and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, as well as in France, the Netherlands, Italy, and beyond.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2.European Prehistory of News Communication.- Chapter 3. Connecting Europe, the Levant and India.- Chapter 4. Early European News and Newspapers in the Trade Networks’ Communication, Mediterranean and India.- Chapter 5. Conclusion: Global Comparisons.