Sabrina Alcorn Baron & Brendan Dooley 
The Politics of Information in Early Modern Europe [PDF ebook] 

In its various European contexts, the invention and spread of newspapers in the seventeenth century had a profound effect on early modern culture and politics. While recent research has explored the role of the newspaper in transforming information into ideology in various European countries, this book is the first to bring this work together into a comprehensive and comparative survey.