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Hardcover, 22 cm. Condition: Sehr gut. 476 pp., 15 fig. col. A very good copy. - Summary: In times of emergency, communication plays a crucial yet problematic role. While this may seem obvious nowadays, even before the emergence of modern media, the methods of gathering, elaborating and transmitting information had a significant influence on the perception of risk and decision-making processes. The book examines how government bodies and different social actors handled emergencies in the Hispanic Monarchy, from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. It features case studies from the Hispanic Monarchys European, American and Asian territories, exploring the narrative strategies used in news-sheets and gazettes, the impact of disasters on information networks, how they interacted with political and social dynamics, and the effect of conflicting interpretations of extreme events. - Acknowledgement: The papers collected in this volume stem from a range of seminars and workshops held in 20182021 as part of the DisComPoSE research project (Disasters, Communication and Politics in Southwestern Europe. The Making of Emergency Response Policies in the Early Modern Age). Many were presented at the Comunicazione, politica e gestione dellemergenza nella Monarchia ispanica, secoli XVIXVIII conference held online on 78 June 2021. Our gratitude goes to all of the members of the DisComPoSE research group and the many colleagues who contributed in various ways on several different occasions as this volume was being prepared, and in particular to Giancarlo Alfano, Beatriz Álvarez García, Antonio Álvarez-Ossorio Alvariño, Yasmina R. Ben Yessef Garfia, Davide Boerio, Diego Carnevale, Massimo Cattaneo, Vittorio Celotto, Chiara De Caprio, Giulia Delogu, Patrizia Delpiano, Filippo de Vivo, Valeria Enea, Carmen Espejo-Cala, Valentina Favarò, Idamaria Fusco, Adrián García Torres, Manuel Herrero Sánchez, Paulina Machuca, Giuseppe Marcocci, Ida Mauro, Francesco Montuori, Giovanni Muto, Elisa Novi Chavarria, Pasquale Palmieri, Rosa Anna Paradiso, María Eugenia Petit-Breuilh Sepúlveda, Massimo Rospocher, Gennaro Schiano, Umberto Signori, Gennaro Varriale, Piero Ventura and Milena Viceconte. Finally, we would like to extend our most heartfelt thanks to Anna Maria Rao for her constant encouragement and inspiring guidance, and to Manuela Pitterà for her invaluable support. - Contents: Times of emergency: Managing communication and politics in the aftermath of a disaster -- Section I: Controlling the flow of news -- Early modern information: Collecting and knowing in Spain and its Empire -- Calamities, communication and public space between manuscript and print (Spain and Portugal, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries): From prayers to news -- Decide, apply and communicate: The colonial administration in Mexico faced with extreme weather episodes -- Section II: From relaciones to periodicals -- A linguistic perspective on the reporting of seventeenth-century natural disasters -- The rhetoric of disaster between the pre-periodical and the periodical press: The Guadalmedina flood (1661) and the case of the Gazeta Nueva -- Communicative strategies in relazioni on the 1669 eruption of Mount Etna -- Countering the spread of contagion. Plague and the media: A close relationship, the case of Conversano (1690-1692) -- A comparative analysis of earthquakes as reported in the official Spanish press (1770-9): A commercial strategy? -- Section III: The logistics of communication -- Crisis as a measure of communicative capacity in the Spanish Empire: Letters, messengers and news informing Spain of the Sangley uprising in Manila (1603-1608) -- The 1645 Manila earthquake: The distance-time problem during emergencies -- Standing on shaky ground: The politics of disasters in early modern Peru -- Mechanisms and strategies for communication in time of war during the eighteenth century -- Section IV: Putting a spin on disasters -- Divine intervention? The politics of interpreting disasters -- Disaster a.…

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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In times of emergency, communication plays a crucial yet problematic role. While this may seem obvious nowadays, even before the emergence of modern media, the methods of gathering, elaborating and transmitting information had a significant influence on the perception of risk and decision-making processes. The book examines how government bodies and different social actors handled emergencies in the Hispanic Monarchy, from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. It features case studies from the Hispanic Monarchy's European, American and Asian territories, exploring the narrative strategies used in news-sheets and gazettes, the impact of disasters on information networks, how they interacted with political and social dynamics, and the effect of conflicting interpretations of extreme events.GPSR Kontakt, Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena, 15, 28027 Madrid 476 pp. Englisch.…