Daniel Defoe and the Invention of News
June 28, 2015
Andrew Pettegree— In 1704 the English writer Daniel Defoe embarked on the publication of a political journal: the Weekly Review of the Affairs of France. This was not yet the Defoe made… READ MORE
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