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- catalog abstract ""Do new information technologies always produce progress and enlightenment? No, at least not according to observers in seventeenth-century Europe. As Brendan Dooley demonstrates in The Social History of Skepticism, the transformation of information about present and past politics into a saleable product, whether in the form of commissioned histories or in the form of journalism, turned writers into speculators, information into opinion, and readers into critics. The result was a powerful current of skepticism with extraordinary consequences. Combined with late-seventeenth-century developments in other areas of thought and writing, it produced skepticism about the possibility of gaining any historical knowledge at all." "Joining the history of ideas to the history of journalism and publishing, Dooley sets out to discover when early modern people believed their political informants and when they did not."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11377667.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""Do new information technologies always produce progress and enlightenment? No, at least not according to observers in seventeenth-century Europe. As Brendan Dooley demonstrates in The Social History of Skepticism, the transformation of information about present and past politics into a saleable product, whether in the form of commissioned histories or in the form of journalism, turned writers into speculators, information into opinion, and readers into critics. The result was a powerful current of skepticism with extraordinary consequences. Combined with late-seventeenth-century developments in other areas of thought and writing, it produced skepticism about the possibility of gaining any historical knowledge at all." "Joining the history of ideas to the history of journalism and publishing, Dooley sets out to discover when early modern people believed their political informants and when they did not."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-203) and index.".
- catalog description "News Unfit to Print -- Politics' New Clothes -- Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat -- Veritas Filia Temporis.".
- catalog extent "viii, 213 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Social history of skepticism.".
- catalog identifier "080186142X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Social history of skepticism.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 117th ser., 2".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Social history of skepticism.".
- catalog spatial "Italy".
- catalog subject "070.9 21".
- catalog subject "Historiography Political aspects.".
- catalog subject "Journalism History.".
- catalog subject "Journalism Italy History.".
- catalog subject "PN4801 .D66 1999".
- catalog subject "Press and politics History.".
- catalog subject "Press and politics Italy History.".
- catalog subject "Skepticism History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "News Unfit to Print -- Politics' New Clothes -- Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat -- Veritas Filia Temporis.".
- catalog title "The social history of skepticism : experience and doubt in early modern culture / Brendan Dooley.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".