Hardback - no dust jacket. Like New/Very Good. Published by Pickering & Chatto, London 2008 - 1st Edition. Military news shifted from public ritual, through private letters, to public newspapers during the time written in this book. The author argues that the development of written news required new standards of credibility for the information to be believable. Whereas ritual news established credibility through public performance, letters circulated socially between gentlemen relied on the honour of the author. With the rise of anonymous pamphlets and corantos (early newspapers) at the beginning of the seventeenth century, a still-existing standard of credibility developed which was based on individuals reading multiple, anonymous texts.
