The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself

The Invention of News

How the World Came to Know About Itself

By
Andrew Pettegree
Andrew Pettegree
2014 • 452 pages

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50 books

History

FetesandFika
Amanda
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
In The Devil's Garden
Spice: The History Of A Temptation
The Map of Knowledge
Caste
Three Rings
Warm & Snug

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790 books

Sociology Anthropology

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Spiritomb
Culture of Fear
Paradox of Plenty
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
The Authoritarians

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166 books

Microhistory

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Spiritomb
Libraries in the Ancient World
Blame It on the Dog: A Modern History of the Fart
Who Cut the Cheese?: A Cultural History of the Fart
Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding
Sweat
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
The Royal Art of Poison

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43 books

Social Media

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The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media
Where Truth Lies: Digital Culture and Documentary Media after 9/11
About Face The Odyssey of an American Warrior
The Internet of Garbage
a tumblr book: platform and cultures
Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter