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Book SynopsisThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.For victims of persecution around the world, attracting international media attention for their plight is often a matter of life and death. This study takes us back to the news revolution of seventeenth-century Europe, when people first discovered in the press a powerful new weapon to combat religiously inspired maltreatments, executions, and massacres. To affect and mobilize foreign audiences, confessional minorities and their advocates faced an acute dilemma, one that we still grapple with today: how to make people care about distant suffering? David de Boer argues that by answering this question, they laid the foundations of a humanitarian culture in Europe.As consuming news became an everyday practice for many Europeans, the Dutch Republic emerged as an intern
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: The paradox of intervention 2: A silent persecution 3: Covering a refugee crisis 4: Selling the last war of religion 5: Between eschatology and enlightenment Conclusion: Beyond the confessional divide
