The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe

Highly ambitious and impressive … testifying not only to decades of work in this field, but also to a marvellous openness to new ideas, new sources and new approaches. The news, in this case, is that 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 *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 Critc *Capacious in structure, monumental in volume … Raymond Wren is a recovering academic, expert in the field of bibliography … and he was always going to be obliged by temperament to burst free of its limitations – Minoo Dinshaw * Spectator *

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.