The European Press and News in the Mediterranean and India, c. 1650-1800

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The European Press and News in the Mediterranean and India, c. 1650-1800 is written by Cornel Zwierlein and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3031872568 (ISBN 10) and 9783031872563 (ISBN 13).

This book reconstructs the first attempts to integrate Europe and Asia in terms of newspaper distribution, reception, and news coverage during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The East India Companies shared news via the “overland route” from Aleppo through Persia to India by using professional runners, riders, and postal relay systems. This book reminds us of the special character of the European handwritten and printed newspapers in Italy, Germany, France, and England as a precondition for what merchants in India and the Levant were likely to miss abroad. Comparative sections address such newspapers’ relationship with the Moghul newsletter system (akhbārāt) and whether the European Enlightenment was “meeting” a global Indian Renaissance in terms of news circulation. The conclusion compares these Euro-Indian realities with similar handwritten news circulation and printed press in China and in the Americas.