What was worth a headline back then – from today's perspective
Newspaper headlines determine what is important – from a contemporary perspective. A historical view, however, shows a very different picture. Klaus Zeyringer brilliantly recounts how more than fifty historical events were perceived in the press at the time, and historian Ursula Prutsch clarifies their significance and impact from today's scholarly perspective: how propaganda, for example, legitimised the first global war; how a revolution boosted the market for devotional objects; which fatal role newspapers played in economic crises; how colonialism demonised uprisings; how headlines in 2001 called for retaliation...
A gripping journey through time into the relevance of the past, full of surprising stories and food for thought about today's headlines.
